Photograph by DEA, A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images) The Indus Valley people benefited from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade from nearby Mesopotamia.

ca 550 B.C., showing the Marduk temple complex and the Etemenanki as seen from the Euphrates River. Image courtesy of Album / Alamy Stock Photo Of all the cities that bloomed along the Tigris and ...

GRACE measured groundwater usage between 2003 and 2009 and found that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin—comprising Turkey ... the nearly dry Jordan River, and Israel has agreed to release freshwater ...