History’s first city, at least according to the ancient text known as the Sumerian King List found on a clay tablet, was also ...
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, ...
Historically, Mesopotamia has depended on the Euphrates River and its ... This exceptional situation has enabled researchers to precisely identify and map a complex network of artificial canals ...
A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, researchers ...
The texts contain cuneiform symbols, an early writing system, and show the red tape of government bureaucracy dates back over ...
Red tape may feel like a modern-day frustration, but according to archaeologists, it's been a part of governance for ...
but it was one of the independent Sumerian cities that were conquered around 2300BC by the Mesopotamian king Sargon. Sargon originally came from the city of Akkad, whose location remains unknown ...
A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia ... methods to uncover and map the ancient irrigation network ...
In the rolling countryside of Northeast Ohio, where Amish buggies clip-clop down country roads and cornfields stretch to the ...