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Eridu
The Sumerian King List gives Eridu's first king, Alulim, a reign of 28,800 years
In the 3rd Millennium BC a canal, Id-edin-Eriduga (NUN)ki "the canal of the Eridug …
How did scribes writing many centuries later know, or decide, that Eridu came first?
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