The team used everything from satellite imagery, drones, geomorphological analysis, historical records, and remote sensing technology to map the ... noted that the Euphrates River’s highly ...

Historically, Mesopotamia has depended on the Euphrates River and its tributaries for crop irrigation ... This exceptional situation has enabled researchers to precisely identify and map a complex ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, researchers ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are between two and five meters wide.

Founded in 1939, the Knights of Babylon are named for the legendary kingdom on the banks of the Euphrates river. The Knights proudly adhere to old-time traditions including flambeaux lighting and ...

As Mark Twain wrote, Damascus “measures time not by days and months and years, but by the empires she has seen rise and ...

If there were a giant map of the world's great ... in the Near East with the great river valleys then as the main source areas, the Nile, the Tigris-Euphrates, and then over in India, the Indus ...

Long ago, the Euphrates shifted course, forcing people to abandon the area. Unlike other Mesopotamian sites where the river changes disrupted irrigation systems, Eridu’s landscape remained untouched.

The Eridu region, near Basra in present-day Iraq, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates’ course in ... were buried beneath newer canals or river sediments. By combining ...

Part Biblical myth part Zionist delusion, the idea of a belligerent Greater Israel is the Zionist strategy, and also its last lifeline, writes Emad Moussa.