The system, with over 200 major canals and 4,000 smaller ones, was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite imagery and geological mapping.

The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region, which was inhabited between the sixth until the early first millennium B.C. Fed by the Euphrates River ...

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.

Hydraulic control structures, including dikes and natural or artificial breaches in river dikes, allowed the controlled ...

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"Damascus must be under full Israeli control, and we will ensure that it comes under our control," he further noted. "Syria is our bridge to the Euphrates, and in the future we will reach Iraq and ...