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.

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light on the rise of farming in the region. Researchers, led by geoarchaeologist ...

A remarkable aspect of the discovery is that, unlike other Mesopotamian regions where river courses changed drastically over the centuries, in the Eridu region, the Euphrates remained relatively ...

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.

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 water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

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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 ...