
Lost Civilizations Podcast w/ Matt Lacroix
Archaeologists Found a Lost Sumerian City in 1931 | LCP #2: Jenn Deyo
<p>In 1931 the Penn Museum sent a team to Fara in southern Iraq to settle whether Shuruppak, the last city named before the flood in the Sumerian King List, was a real place or a story. They found it, thirteen feet down, under more than five feet of sterile flood deposit with no human occupation in it at all.Seventy percent of the team had already gone home, because nothing was supposed to be under that layer.Matthew LaCroix is joined by Mesopotamian archaeologist Jenn Deyo, who went with him to the Penn Museum archive to read the records that...


