World's Oldest City Had a Massive Canal System, Experts Uncover an Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu Throughout history, several ancient civilizations have built impeccable infrastructure, including ...

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 U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...

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A large network of ancient irrigation canals has been discovered in Iraq’s Eridu region ... was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite ...

The lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq is dying. The combination of geopolitics and climate change risks making large swathes of the Fertile Crescent uninhabitable. A studied reader will ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are key water sources for Iraq. About 75 percent of Iraq’s water comes from neighboring Iran and Turkey, and 20 to 25 percent is from internal sources.

Flows have already stopped to power plants in Baghdad and the central Euphrates region for the past two months, electricity ministry spokesman Ahmed Moussa told Iraq news agency INA on Monday.