They founded the world's first city in IRAQ — and vanished without a name.
Beneath the sands of southern Iraq lies a city that the Sumerians themselves considered the origin of the world—older than Babylon, older than Ur. It's called Eridu. And it has been decades without anyone seriously excavating it.
In 1946, Iraqi and British archaeologists found 19 superimposed levels of human occupation, the deepest dating back to 5000 BC. Temples built one on top of the other for two thousand years straight. An uninterrupted record that no other site in the world had produced.
Then they stopped. And no one has returned.
In this video: what they actually found, what hasn't been published, and why the city that appears on the Sumerian King List as "the first place where kingship descended from heaven" doesn't appear in any textbook.
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