Archaeologists solve mystery of Iraq’s huge network of ridges and canals - The researchers reviewed images from the 1960s ...

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a ...

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Although it is customary in this country to describe all our inland canals and coastal waterways in the western ... schemes undertaken never totally proved successful. By 1903, the British Government ...

Oil on canvas painting by British painter JC Heard. Universal History Archive, Getty Images To preserve its dominance, the British Raj deliberately emphasized differences between religious and ...