Archaeologists excavate the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Eridu, near Basra in southern Iraq, in 2022. Alla Al-Marjani/Reuters/GTRES. By Antonio Ratti. April 24, 2025.

The mound that housed ancient Eridu was identified in 1855 by British archaeologist John George Taylor, who conducted the initial excavations at the site now known as Tell Abu Shahrain. Taylor found ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern ...

With the canals irrigating more than 700 ancient farms sometime between the sixth and early first millennium B.C., the farm sizes ranged from 5,000 square feet all the way to over 200,000 square feet.

Researchers found thousands of ancient irrigation canals up to 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) long carved into the landscape near Basra in Iraq, which at the time was the Eridu region of Mesopotamia. ...

Eridu’s status was legendary even in ancient times. Babylonians actually believed that Eridu was the oldest city on Earth, having been created by the gods themselves. That kind of reverence attracted ...

Ruins of the Eridu mound today. Credit: coddie / depositphotos.com The results revealed a highly developed irrigation network, composed of more than 200 main canals, some up to 9 km long and between 2 ...

The Ruins of Eridu is a dungeon in Diablo 4 you’re going to want to complete as soon as you find it. You might avoid certain dungeons if they don’t have an Aspect you’re looking for, but ...

An ancient Babylonian myth claims that Eridu, a site located in southern Iraq, is the oldest city in the world and was created by the gods, wrote Zainab Bahrani, ...

Ruins of Eridu in Diablo 4 is one of those dungeons that involves boss fights. The Ruins of Eridu in D4 can be hard to progress, but with some assistance, you can conquer the dungeon easily. Ruins ...