Professor Ali Obeid Shilgam, the Director General of the Department of Archaeological Research in Iraq, announced the findings during archaeological survey work in the Diyala region, where three qanat ...

In 2022 the team started to excavate a 20 meter deep water channel (qanat) shaft, only one of more than 200 shafts that are part of this specific system. Mark Driessen descended into the shaft ...

By 2050, Seville could record summer peaks of 50 C and a 20 per cent reduction in rainfall. By developing several solutions ...

The restoration of “qanats” – underground tunnels that tap groundwater and direct it to towns and agricultural land – offers a sustainable way of managing scarce water resources. The Swiss ...