History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...
The proximate cause of Guidry's “reform” proposal is that Guidry and Carubba want police chief Joshua Rondeno serving as the ...
Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, ...
Farmers in the ancient city used the natural landscape to their advantage, digging canals in a way that allowed water from high river levees to flow by gravity to the surrounding fields.
The levee that protects Downtown Oroville from flooding is over a hundred years old and has fallen into disrepair in recent ...
The primary canals, between 0.6 and 5.5 miles long and 2-5 metres wide, joined the river Euphrates. They would have been used by farmers to irrigate water from high river levees to the surrounding ...