Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

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Researchers mapped over 4,000 canals in the Mesopotamian region around Eridu, ... drones, geomorphological analysis, historical records, and remote sensing technology to map the area. Related Story.

Location of Eridu. Credit: Crates / Wikimedia Commons Unlike other areas, the Eridu region was abandoned after a shift in the course of the Euphrates, allowing its archaeological landscape to remain ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.