As a result, the ancient irrigation system was preserved intact, which is a rarity compared to other Mesopotamian locations ...

Mesopotamia refers ... complex and ever-changing system of canals and levees to irrigate their crops, allowing food to be grown in areas that lacked rainfall. These irrigation systems were ...

He noted that an irrigation system that distributed ... and Royal Legitimation in Mesopotamia" (Gorgias Press, 2004). Although largely destroyed today, in ancient times the ziggurat of Etemenanki ...

Researchers, led by geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri from Durham University, said the extensive water management system ... ancient landscape unlike elsewhere in Mesopotamia where older irrigation ...

This research shows it may have been spread by the introduction of crop irrigation in ancient Mesopotamia, the region along the Tigris-Euphrates river system that covers parts of modern-day Iraq, Iran ...