Ancient Tigris River tides, not royal canals, powered early farming and helped spark the first cities in Mesopotamia.

In 1920, the colonial powers of the British Empire and France reverse course on their commitment to grant independence to the ...

The ancient Mesopotamians created a massive, sophisticated network of canals to water their crops more than 3,000 years ago, a new study has revealed. Researchers found thousands of ancient irrigation ...

A new and spellbinding book tells the history of the very ancient past of Mesopotamia, the land between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris. Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the ...