Wout van Aert has descended from Mount Teide, hoping that three weeks of intense altitude training will give him an advantage ...

This underrated river in the Mid-Atlantic is one of the oldest rivers on Earth—and a superb outdoor destination right in the US.

The system, with over 200 major canals and 4,000 smaller ones, was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite imagery and geological mapping.

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 ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

The canal network, detailed in the journal Antiquity, 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 ...

declared in his testimony to the UN Special Committee Enquiry in July 1947 — two months before the UN Palestine Partition Plan — that “the Promised Land [Palestine] extends from the River of Egypt up ...

The Eridu region, near Basra in present-day Iraq, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates' course in the early ... beneath newer canals or river sediments.

The Eridu region, near Basra in present-day Iraq, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates’ course in the early first millennium ... systems were buried beneath newer canals or ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.