Iraqi officials are sounding the alarm to save monuments of the cradle of civilisation, with thousands of years of history at ...

Climate change and rising salinity threaten Iraq's ancient cities like Ur and Babylon, imperiling thousands of years of ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

Archaeologists uncover a monumental 5,000-year-old building in Mesopotamia’s Kani Shaie, revealing Uruk’s cultural reach.

Around 2400 BCE, the Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma went to war over irrigation water. Lagash diverted canals feeding Umma’s fields, sparking one of the first documented conflicts over a ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

Water-related conflict is among the key concerns for a future marked by rising incidences of droughts, increasing water ...

Long before municipal water treatment plants and chlorination, ancient societies faced the same essential challenge we ...

A recent study is changing the understanding of how urbanization developed in ancient Mesopotamia. According to the analysis, the emergence of the Sumerian civilization was not only the result of ...

Irrigation canal maintenance in western Nebraska is taking a giant step forward thanks to an innovative, non-invasive method ...

Research shows that ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer, the world’s first civilization. Shifting deltas and tidal rhythms ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...