The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...
Water buffalo gently glide through shallow water canals that snake throughout Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian Marshes, their ...
Umma and Lagash in Ancient Mesopotamia, fought over access to irrigation water and one city cut off the irrigation canal to another city. But stories like this go back even farther in myths and ...
A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...
A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce ...
A smart water system created 1,500 years ago by an ancient Amazonian urban society turned swampy savanna into fertile farmland that produced corn all year round, a new study has found.