Historical photograph from the excavation of Eridu conducted by Fuad Safar and Seton Lloyd in the 1940s-1950s. Their work uncovered 18 superimposed temple
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Historical photograph from the excavation of Eridu conducted by Fuad Safar and Seton Lloyd in the 1940s-1950s. Their work uncovered 18 superimposed temple levels reaching back to the Ubaid period, with the earliest being a simple single-room shrine that gradually evolved into a massive mudbrick temple platform over millennia.
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