Over 200 canals and 4,000 smaller channels identified in Iraq The system supplied water to farms before the first millennium B.C. A shift in the Euphrates River led to the canals becoming obsolete ...

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This discovery provides an exceptionally clear window into the agricultural practices of early Mesopotamian farmers. Between the sixth century BC and the early first millennium BC, the farmers ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

Nothing validates my parenting quite like discovering an ancient Mesopotamian teen’s clay tablet complaint that could have been written yesterday—minus the effort of carving it into actual stone.

That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed ... The workforce consisted largely of war widows and orphans, and also slaves captured from the mountains surrounding Mesopotamia.

Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern Mesopotamia, shedding new light on early farming practices. The research team, ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...

Historical evidence shows that from that time on, police authorities began to form and excel, particularly in the city-state of Athens, where publicly owned slaves were used by magistrates as a police ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Argentina’s President Javier Milei speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the ...

The Princess Royal was left “shocked” by the devastation caused to homes by Storm Bert, residents said. Anne visited the town of Lydney, in the Forest of Dean, which saw around 50 properties ...