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

Beneath the ruins of Eridu, archaeologists have uncovered an extensive ancient irrigation system that once sustained early Mesopotamian agriculture. This network of canals, preserved for millennia ...

“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 ...

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

Infection can result in anaemia, kidney failure and bladder cancer. This research shows it may have been spread by the introduction of crop irrigation in ancient Mesopotamia, the region along the ...

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

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 ...

What you need to know: Irrigation has been used since time immemorial where ancient civilisations such as ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia thrived due to irrigation.