The ancient Nabataeans were well known for their hydraulic system, water storage and irrigation in a very arid area of Petra ...

Heritage Music of the Arab World' is a series by Ahram Online, in partnership with the AMAR Foundation (Foundation for Arab ...

At night, when you walk along Piazza di Porta San Giovanni, before crossing the walls to access Appio Latino, it's hard not to notice those flashes of white. The light from the Cathedral of ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today celebrated the 30th anniversary of AQUASTAT, the ...

I made mention of a gathering in Colombo to remember Kumar David, who passed away last October, as Comrade, Professor and ...

The record of this practice, referenced in the ancient text Pattinapilai, reveals a system of financial governance ... which was spent on building irrigation networks, supporting the arts and ...

as well as thousands of priceless Greek and Roman antiquities - burned. But thanks to proactive management, including extensive and consistent brush-clearing, irrigation and the tireless work of an ...

By removing rainbows from about 40 miles of the park's 2,100-mile river system, the National Park ... which means that he'll have to spend less for irrigation in the future.

Roman general Aemilius Paullus (c ... watered by a hydraulic irrigation system. (“A work of art of royal luxury . . . suspended above the heads of spectators,” noted Greek engineer Philo ...

In 1885, the Cavafys returned to Alexandria, where Constantine would spend the rest of his life, from the age of 22 to 70, working as a civil servant in the department of irrigation. He moved into ...