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 Imago Mundi, the oldest known world map, offers a rare glimpse into the ... an ancient city north of Babylon along the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in ... for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates river’s course in the first millennium BC.

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 ...

Crystal River’s successful restoration provides a road map for fixing other impaired water ... (Jason Gulley/Wildpath) During World Water Day on March 22, it’s worth highlighting the progress ...

Equally unsettling was the map of the Middle East in the national ... settlement called Dura-Europos perched high above the Euphrates River east of Damascus along the Iraqi border.

If there were a giant map of the world's great ... in the Near East with the great river valleys then as the main source areas, the Nile, the Tigris-Euphrates, and then over in India, the Indus ...