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.

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.

A Dublin couple who were left devastated after the back of their home fell into a river have shared an update, noting ‘there is still a huge amount of repair works to be completed.’ Ellen Bleinhein ...