The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...

In an instant, dark clouds engulfed the sky, obscuring the scorching sun in Al-Hizamat, a small village near Afak district in Iraq's Diwaniyah Governorate. Rain was imminent. Almost. A few minutes ...

In southern Iraq, archaeologists have excavated a remarkable collection of carved clay tablets—ancient records of Akkadia, ...

More than 4,000 years ago, two Sumerian city-states – Lagash and Umma – were engaged in a fierce war over a strip of fertile land and a canal fed by the Tigris River in what today would be southern ...

Sumerian cities were known for their complex ... field plans and maps of canals. These were drawn by surveying scribes of the administration and are among the earliest known in the world.” ...

The Sindh Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution, expressing strong opposition to the construction of new canals on the Indus River. The resolution, tabled by Chief Minister Murad ...

And in 1904, Panama granted the United States the right to build and operate a canal and control five miles of land on either side of the water. But ownership of the region had been a thorny issue for ...

Over 200 canals and 4,000 smaller channels identified in Iraq The system supplied water to farms before the first millennium B.C. A shift in the Euphrates River led to the canals becoming obsolete ...

A vast network of irrigation canals, dating back more than 3,000 years, has been identified in southern Iraq. The canals, which were used to transport water from the Euphrates River, are believed to ...

This shortage has led to the rapid drying up of canals, distributaries, and watercourses in districts such as Thatta, Sujawal, Badin, and Tando Muhammad Khan. Comments Our site 1 ...

floated through the canals. At the Nerang River, homeowner Ashley Freeman took to social media to share the extent of the flooding. “For everyone who thinks the worst of ex-Cyclone Alfred has ...

Global Infrastructure Partner, a subsidiary of BlackRock, owned by Adebayo Ogunlesi, has acquired the Panama Canal Ports for $23 billion A Hong Kong-based conglomerate agreed to relinquish its ...