They posited that human ingenuity alone couldn’t have produced the surplus needed to feed ancient city-states like Uruk, Ur, ...

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.

“These irrigation systems distributed water to crops and may have triggered the beginning of the enormous disease burden that schistosomiasis has caused over the past 6000 years,”co-author of ...

Until now, researchers thought that millet wasn't grown in Iraq until the construction of later 1 st millennium BCE imperial irrigation systems.

Eridu was left dry and uninhabited, preserving it like no other Mesopotamian region with irrigation systems that ended up buried under new canals.

The events of 2014 echoed the region’s history. Nearly three thousand years earlier, the Assyrian king Sargon II destroyed an irrigation system in southern Mesopotamia during a military campaign ...

How did ancient Sumer thrive? New research points to natural tidal irrigation! Tides brought water and nutrients to early farms, kickstarting cities. As the coast shifted, Sumerians adapted, building ...