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.

Beneath the ruins of Eridu, archaeologists have uncovered an extensive ancient irrigation system that once sustained early Mesopotamian agriculture. This network of canals, preserved for millennia, ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region, which was inhabited between the sixth until the early first millennium B.C. Fed by the Euphrates River ...

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.

The Indus Valley region, which has historically been rich in natural resources has long been associated with gold and other precious metals.

Historically, Mesopotamia has depended on the Euphrates River and its tributaries for crop irrigation ... This exceptional situation has enabled researchers to precisely identify and map a complex ...

Long ago, the Euphrates shifted course, forcing people to abandon the area. Unlike other Mesopotamian sites where the river changes disrupted irrigation systems, Eridu’s landscape remained untouched.

If you’ve ever traveled to a boat ramp in Oregon, chances are good that you’ve laid eyes on a style of boat used the world over to ... shape of a McKenzie River Drift Boat is unmistakable ...