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Vol 1 Ep 21 - The origin of towns ( Eridu )

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Eridu, Mesopotamia

The eridu archaeological site was originally investigated in the 18 fifties, with significant studies being made there after the second world war. It is believed that erid started out as a humble village before five thousand b c e, and over the course of the next two thousand years, had become a settlement of no less than four thousand people. Archaeology demonstrates that eridu was a significant sight of fishing with much in the way of equipment such as nets. And weits bein excavated as well as dried fish remains. Erido has been described as many as the st city. Whether or not this is true is extremely debatable, but erido does have as good a

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