Teaching world history often feels like trying to pour the ocean into a teacup. Its vast scope and complexity can overwhelm both students and educators, reducing the subject to a fragmented parade of ...

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

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Researchers in Iraq have uncovered an extensive Mesopotamian canal system used for irrigation over 3,000 years ago.

That was until the river shifted course, drying out the region and leaving the canal trenches behind, according to the study. "A shift in the ancient course of the Euphrates River left this region dry ...

The study provided a clear picture of the well-planned ancient irrigation system that once flourished in the region.

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

The study, led by Jaafar Jotheri, was published in the journal Antiquity and mapped the canals, which remained undisturbed for centuries as the river Euphrates shifted its course. Eridu was ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...