Fish stocks were depleted ... dams and embankments that required more heavy equipment. “The water from Tigris and Euphrates started flowing back to the marshes,” Asadi tells me, smiling.

A 3-D landscape model of the northern side of Jebel Bishri facing the Euphrates . The model is constructed from NASA space shuttle X-SAR mission 2000 radar data (provided by DLR, the German Aerospace ...