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. At such a critical moment in US ...

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.

This left the area dry and uninhabited, thus preserving the ancient landscape, unlike other parts of Mesopotamia where older ...

The marshy and moving landscape of this deltaic plain was the heartland where ... marshes and developed into some of the most important urban centres of southern Mesopotamia. These cities saw the ...