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 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 Eridu region, near Basra in present-day Iraq, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates ... canals or river sediments. By combining geological maps, satellite imagery ...

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 ...

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.

This is attributed to a historical shift in the Euphrates River’s course around ... methods to uncover and map the ancient irrigation network in the Eridu region. They utilized geological ...

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 ...

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 ...

Israeli rightists see the post-October 7 2023 atmosphere and the concomitant regional rollercoaster as a historical ... that “the Promised Land [Palestine] extends from the River of Egypt up the ...