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The Sumerians established Eridu in southern Mesopotamia, possibly the world's oldest city.
Archaeological evidence places Eridu's founding around 5400 BCE, though it grew into a major settlement by 4000 BCE. The Sumerians themselves considered it the first city ever built — the place where kingship 'descended from heaven.' Its temple to the water god Enki sits at the bottom of a sequence of 18 rebuilds, showing continuous worship spanning millennia.
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