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 ...

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 ...

This exceptional situation has enabled researchers to precisely identify and map a complex network ... unlike other Mesopotamian regions where river courses changed drastically over the centuries, in ...

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 Eridu region offers a rare exception. Long ago, the Euphrates shifted ... Mesopotamian sites where the river changes disrupted irrigation systems, Eridu’s landscape remained untouched. This ...

Part Biblical myth part Zionist delusion, the idea of a belligerent Greater Israel is the Zionist strategy, and also its last lifeline, writes Emad Moussa.

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia ... millennium BC irrigated their fields using the Euphrates River ...

Israel lies on the map like a flint ... the brook [the Nile] to the Euphrates.’ In July 1947 Rabbi Fischmann of the Jewish Agency told the UN’s Special Committee on Palestine that “the promised land ...

which remained undisturbed for centuries as the river Euphrates shifted its course. Eridu was therefore left dry and uninhabited, preserving it like no other Mesopotamian region with irrigation ...

has fully complied with a directive issued by the Western Regional Minister, Joseph Nelson, to cease blocking and polluting River Anankore due to its operational activities. The company had been ...