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 ...

Climate change is the most pressing problem humanity will face this century. Tracking how the climate is actually changing ...

An important water source in Iraq’s southern province of Dhi Qar is drying up, affecting thousands of people and threatening ...

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

The nods, Karmakar explains, are rivers personified by male gods who fell in love with the nodis and wanted to merge with ...

The study provided a clear picture of the well-planned ancient irrigation system that once flourished in the region.

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

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in Mesopotamia, shedding more light ...

Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...

which remained undisturbed for centuries as the river Euphrates shifted its course. Eridu was therefore left dry and uninhabited, preserving it like no other Mesopotamian region with irrigation ...

The canal network, detailed in the journal Antiquity, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates river’s course in the first millennium BC. This left the area dry and ...