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

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

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

Archaeologists have uncovered an extensive irrigation system, including canals and farms, near Sumerian Eridu, an ancient Mesopotamian city long believed to be the oldest in history. The discovery ...

History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...

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

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, ...

Ziggurat of Ur. Credit: flickr / Joshua McFall CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Archaeologists have uncovered an extensive irrigation system, including canals and farms, near Sumerian Eridu, an ancient Mesopotamian ...

Beneath the ruins of Eridu, archaeologists have uncovered an extensive ancient irrigation system that once sustained early ...

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.