World's Oldest City Had a Massive Canal System, Experts Uncover an Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu Throughout history, ...
Eridu was left dry and uninhabited, preserving it like no other Mesopotamian region with irrigation systems that ended up ...
Today, the lake’s shores are completely dry and areas that were once covered ... As the lake is shrinking and no fresh water is coming from the Euphrates, the weeds are leaving a foul odour ...
Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...
The canal network, detailed in the journal Antiquity, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates river’s course in the first millennium BC. This left the area dry and ...
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 ...
Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...