Eridu Timeline

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