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.

A large network of ancient irrigation canals has been discovered in Iraq’s Eridu region ... was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite ...

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.

Local academics believe that water wheels, used all around the world, were discovered on the banks of the Euphrates River in Anbar province and should be on the World Heritage List. Local academics ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ...

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 ...

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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 ...