The Euphrates River, stretching over 2,800 km from Turkey through Syria to Iraq, has finally dried up, causing an unprecedented drought and revealing remarkable archaeological sites that were once ...

The story of Adam and Eve, the first man and woman to be created by God, is one of the most famous in the Bible. But many ...

The river was critical to the development of some of the world’s first agricultural societies like the Sumerians and the Mesopotamians. In the Bible, the Euphrates was even mentioned as one of the ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the towering ...

And the fourth river is the Euphrates.” The location of two of these rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, is known today. The pair start in Turkey before flowing through Syria and Iraq and emptying i ...

fed the fabled Hanging Gardens of Babylon and converged at the place described in the Bible as the Garden of Eden. Now, so little water remains in some villages near the Euphrates River that ...