The Louvre Museum will showcase The Primeval Water exhibition from May 20, 2026, to March 15, 2027, in the Antiquities of the Orient galleries. This exhibit will explore how Mesopotamian civilizations ...

The world’s first known lock-and-key system, dating back to 4000 BCE in Mesopotamia, shows how ancient people protected their valuables. Built from wood and pins, this mechanism inspired later Greek ...

File photo of 551 hectares of farmland in Bula, Camarines Sur, which now has a continuous supply of water, thanks to the National Irrigation Administration’s (NIA) solar-powered irrigation project, ...

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 ...

When Kevin Haggerty drives around the farms south of Bozeman, he sees more than just the dense development and traffic. He sees the area where his mother was born in a cabin, fields his ancestors ...

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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 ...

An almond orchard in Parlier provides a look into the future of farming. Researchers at UC Merced and the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources installed an irrigation system ...

CLOVERDALE — On a hot afternoon in early September, Tygh Redfield stood on the edge of his hay field and surveyed the landscape. In the distance, a massive metal pivot slowly circled the ground, ...

The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many explanations point to fertile soil, farming, and trade networks as the engines of ...