Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...

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Formed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the Mediterranean Sea, this region gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Until the 19th century, Western scholars believed that ...

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world's first empire, known as Akkad, was founded some 4,300 years ago, between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.

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.

The irrigation of Harran is considered one of the project’s successes, but people in Syria and Iraq complain that Turkey’s dams threaten water flows from the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers ...

Hydraulic control structures, including dikes and natural or artificial breaches in river dikes, allowed the controlled distribution of water in the floodplain. Long ago, the Euphrates River ...