Picture No | 10215368 |
Date | 1948 |
Description | Lowest level of Mesopotamia's oldest city |
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Discoveries at Eridu by Sayyid Fuad Safar during excavations of Tell Abu Shahrain. Eridu is the oldest, largest city in Mesopotamia. The site of Eridu settlers' first temple, in the fifth millennium B.C.
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Source | The Illustrated London News. 11 September 1948. top left. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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