Rafidain العربية

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Shuruppak (Tell Fara)

شروباك (تل فارة)

SumerAl-Qadisiyah

A Sumerian city known today as Tell Fara; in the Sumerian flood story it is the home of Ziusudra, who survived in his boat.

It yielded some of the earliest written tablets, including the Instructions of Shuruppak, among the oldest literary works in the world.

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