World's Oldest City Had a Massive Canal System, Experts Uncover an Ancient Irrigation Network in Eridu Throughout history, ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are ...

Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team found ...

New research in Sumerian Eridu, the oldest known city, has mapped thousands of canals and farms, shedding light on the ...

Eridu was left dry and uninhabited, preserving it like no other Mesopotamian region with irrigation systems that ended up ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

In the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, a group of researchers has achieved a significant archaeological milestone: the ...

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.

Fired clay brick stamped with the name of Amar-Sin, Ur III, from Eridu, currently housed in the British Museum. (photo credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 ...