A team of researchers identified and mapped a vast network of irrigation canals near Eridu, considered the oldest city in history. The discovery reveals one of the region's most well-preserved ...

Archaeologists made a staggering discovery underneath the world's oldest city, uncovering 4,000 canals that would have fed over 700 farms. Eridu in southern Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq ...

Credit: J. Jotheri et al. The research, conducted by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and geologists from various universities and international institutions, confirms that the Eridu region, ...

Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region ...

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

Remnants of small canals in Eridu (Jaafar Jotheri et al ... Farmers in the ancient city used the natural landscape to their advantage, digging canals in a way that allowed water from high river ...

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. Fired clay brick stamped with the name ...