History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are ...

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

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with ...

Mesopotamia, a region that includes all of modern-day Iraq as well as parts of Syria, Turkey and Iran, formed a significant part of the Fertile Crescent. Located between the Tigris and Euphrates ...

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...

People in ancient Mesopotamia depended on rivers. But rivers sometime moved, imposing stress on communities. Research shows how this led people to form the first organized governments. Though ...

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

In the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, a group of researchers has achieved a significant archaeological milestone: the ...