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2900 BCE: Probable date of the regional Great Flood when the river Euphrates rose.
2300 BCE: The Eridu Genesis - The Sumerian Flood Story - is composed.
2100 BCE: Ziggurats in use in Sumerian cities of Eridu, Uruk, Ur, Nippur and elsewhere
600 BCE: The city of Eridu is abandoned.