Editing Eridu (section)

===Artifacts===
[[File:Eridu temple 7.png|thumb|right|Large buildings, implying centralized government, started to be made. Eridu Temple, final [[Ubaid period]]]]
In March 2006, [[Giovanni Pettinato]] and S. Chiod from [[Sapienza University of Rome|Rome's La Sapienza University]] claimed to have discovered 500 Early Dynastic historical and literary cuneiform tablets on the surface at Eridu "disturbed by an explosion". The tablets were said to be from 2600 to 2100 BC (rulers Eannatum to Amar-Sin) and be part of a library. A team was sent to the site by Iraq's State Board of Antiquities and Heritage which found no tablets, only stamped bricks from Eridu and surrounding sites such as Ur. Nor was there a permit to excavate at the site issued to anyone.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Biggin |first1=S. |last2=Lawler |first2=A. |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/iraq-antiquities-find-sparks-controversy |title=Iraq Antiquities Find Sparks Controversy |work=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |date=10 April 2006 |access-date=22 August 2022}}</ref><ref>Curtis, John et al., "An Assessment of Archaeological Sites in June 2008: An Iraqi-British Project", Iraq,  vol. 70, pp. 215–237, 2008</ref> At this point Pettinato stated that they had actually found 70 inscribed bricks. This turned out to be stamped bricks used to build the modern Eridu dig-house. The dig-house had been built using bricks from the demolished Leonard Woolley’s  expedition house at Ur (clearly spelled out in the 1981 Iraqi excavation report to avoid confusion to future archaeologists.<ref>Pettinato, Giovanni, "Eridu Texts", Time and History in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the 56th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Barcelona, July 26th-30th, 2010, edited by Lluis Feliu, J. Llop, A. Millet Albà and Joaquin Sanmartín, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, pp. 799-802, 2013</ref> Most of the bricks
in question were returned to Ur in 1962 for use in restoration efforts.<ref name="Safar1981" />