Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

In this op-ed, American Vegetable Grower Editor Carol Miller shows how the principles of irrigation haven’t changed. The ...

PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Riverview Landscapes (“Riverview”) today announced that it has acquired the landscaping and snow management business of Irrigation and Landscape Management, Inc.

For more than a century, the standard story has held that Sumerian cities rose only after powerful rulers dug vast canal networks between the Tigris and Euphrates. Those canals unlocked large-scale ...

Adjunct Assistant Professor in Family and Community Medicine, Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences at Old Dominion University It starts with a slight scratchiness at the back of your throat.

An Akkadian cylinder seal, circa 2350-2150 B.C.E., depicts a contest scene. The image on the right shows the impression the seal would make. Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran ...

More than five thousand years ago, in the fertile lowlands of southern Mesopotamia, the world’s first cities began to rise from the mud. Historians have long credited this explosion of ...

In the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, a team of archaeologists and geologists has accomplished a remarkable feat. They have successfully mapped a large and complex network of irrigation canals ...