The authors noted that the Euphrates River’s highly elevated levees enabled ... was abandoned instead of built over, preserving the ancient landscape. Excavations at specific spots could help ...

It offers rare insights into how ancient farmers from the sixth century until the early first millennium BC irrigated their fields using the Euphrates River. The Eridu region, near Basra in ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, researchers ...

which was inhabited between the sixth until the early first millennium B.C. Fed by the Euphrates River, these canals required extensive upkeep and work to water the network of farms. History’s first ...

Few vacationers travel to Turkiye for a road trip. Most tourists fly to Bodrum or Antalya for a sunny holiday or to splurge ...

Archaeologists in ancient Uruk. Credit: Irak State Board of Antiquities ... These canals date back to different historical periods and connected the city to the Euphrates River. Settlements from the ...

World's Oldest City Had a Massive Canal System, Experts Uncover an Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu Throughout history, ...

Historically, Mesopotamia has depended on the Euphrates River and its tributaries for crop irrigation. The ability to divert water from these rivers through canals was essential for the sustainability ...

remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates river’s course in the first millennium BC. This left the area dry and uninhabited in modern times, preserving the ancient ...