View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

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.

Credit: Antiquity (2025). Archaeologists have discovered a massive and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in southern Mesopotamia, providing new insights into how early ...

and remote sensing technology to map the area. With the canals irrigating more than 700 ancient farms sometime between the sixth and early first millennium B.C., the farm sizes ranged from 5,000 ...

thus preserving the ancient landscape, unlike other parts of Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were buried beneath newer canals or river sediments. By combining geological maps ...

This left the area dry and uninhabited, thus preserving the ancient landscape, unlike other parts of Mesopotamia where older irrigation systems were buried beneath newer canals or river sediments. By ...

This breakthrough is already expanding the number of deciphered texts, shedding new light on the economic and social history of ancient Mesopotamia. But that’s just the start of it. Unlike ...