This left the area dry and uninhabited in modern times, preserving the ancient landscape unlike elsewhere in Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were buried under newer canals. Remnants of ...

The ability to divert water from these rivers through canals was essential for the sustainability of urban settlements. However, most ancient irrigation structures have been buried under fluvial ...

Tongli, also known as Tong-Li, is an ancient water town in Wujiang district, found on the outskirts of Suzhou. Known for its complex system of canals - due to it being surrounded by five huge ...

Jaafar Jotheri, lead author of the study, posted on X that all the canals were connected to the ancient Euphrates and linked more than 700 farms. The team used everything from satellite imagery ...

hunter-gatherers might have island-hopped their way to Africa across the Mediterranean. The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region — present-day Tunisia and ...