Archaeologists solve mystery of Iraq’s huge network of ridges and canals - The researchers reviewed images from the 1960s showing the remains of more than 7,000 massive ridges ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor. Now ...

An aerial photo shows archaeologists working at an archaeological site where researchers uncovered massive earthen structures, believed to have been built with slave labor, and found that their ...