Instead of spending time with a hose every day, gardeners can refill their ollas every few days or even once a week, ...

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 ...

This left the area dry and uninhabited, thus preserving the ancient landscape, unlike other parts of Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were buried beneath newer canals or river sediments.

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 ...

Study authors mapped what had been preserved of the archaeological landscape and discovered what they called a “well-developed network of artificial irrigation canals.” So well-developed ...

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.

However, most ancient irrigation structures have been buried under fluvial sedimentation or replaced by networks from later periods, making it difficult to study the earliest agricultural systems in ...

This analysis focuses on studying sediments in areas believed to have been ancient riverbeds or irrigation canals around the city ... which requires keeping the samples away from light. This method is ...