Word: eridu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the founding of such cities as Eridu and Kish in the valleys of Mesopotamia 5,500 years ago, the city has been the nerve and growth center of civilization. Despite their seemingly insoluble problems, cities are more than ever the creative heart of American society. Indeed, the city and its compounded quandaries-from the problem of race to the issue of law and order-dominate almost all social and political debate in the country today. Ultimately, no city can solve the problems alone, for they belong to the whole society...
Clasped Hands. At the great city of Eridu, once dedicated to the god of waters, archaeologists have found no fewer than 16 temples built in successive generations one on top of another at the same site. The Sumerians created at Eridu, Nippur, Uruk, Ur and Lagash a complex of city-states more sophisticated than anything man had previously known. But however mature they became politically, they remained children of the gods. They portrayed themselves in statues with hands clasped in prayer, their huge, vacant eyes staring heavenward as if they themselves were in a trance. When it came to worship...
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