Gerrha

Gerrha was a city a long, long time ago in a place called the Arabian Peninsula. Think of it like a big sandbox with a bunch of different countries in it. Some people who lived in Gerrha were really good at trading things with other people who lived in other countries nearby. They would use things like spices, cloth, and shiny rocks to get other things they needed to live.

Gerrha was special because it was built in the middle of a big desert, and not a lot of cities were built there because it was too hard to find water. But the people in Gerrha were very smart and found a way to make sure they always had water. They did this by digging deep wells that went all the way down to a secret underground water source called an aquifer.

Eventually, Gerrha became so successful with trade and had so many people living there that it became one of the biggest cities around. But, like all cities, sometimes things change and people move away. Today, Gerrha is just a bunch of old ruins in the desert, but it still tells us a lot about the people who lived there a long, long time ago.