Researchers have discovered an extensive and remarkably well-preserved system of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the ...

Sumerian civilization appears to have evolved in Southern Mesopotamia around 4000 BC, while some historians place it as far ...

However, the apparent success of this system masks an underlying ... without the need for further irrigation. Critics might point out the difficulty of scaling up ancient technologies for global ...