Question

the earliest cities of mesopotamia

Answer 1

Eridu (called Tell Abu Shahrain or Abu Shahrein in Arabic) is one of the earliest permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, and perhaps the world. Located about 22 kilometers (14 miles) south of the modern city of Nasiriyah in Iraq, and about 20 km (12.5 mi) south southwest of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, Eridu was occupied between the 5th and 2nd millennium BC, with its heyday in the early 4th millennium.

Eridu is located in the Ahmad wetland of the ancient Euphrates river in southern Iraq. It is surrounded by a drainage canal, and a relict watercourse abuts the site on the west and south, its braids exhibiting many other channels. The ancient main channel of the Euphrates spreads to the west and northwest of the tell, and a crevasse splay—where the natural levee broke in ancient times—is visible in the old channel. A total of 18 occupation levels have been identified within the site, each containing mud brick architecture built between the Early Ubaid to Late Uruk periods, found during excavations in the 1940s.

Answer 2

There are many such cities. these are babylon, akkad, uruk, nimrud, nippur, etc.

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