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 ...

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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.

Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, history’s first city. The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region ...

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Researchers identified nearly 200 primary canals directly connected to the ancient Euphrates river. These were complemented by approximately 4,000 smaller branch canals. Together, this intricate water ...

The discovery was made in the Eridu region, near present-day Basra, Iraq, and dates back to as early as the sixth century BC. The research team, led by geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, found that ...