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TIL about Eridu, the first sumerian city(in modern day Iraq in the mesopotamian region) founded in 5400 BC, originally located close to the Persian gulf at the mouth of the river, but is now at some distance from the gulf because of the accumulation of silt at its shoreline over a millenia.

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