The cuneiform text on the tablet tells of the creation of the world by the god ... years and contained a map of Mesopotamia that included Babylon, the Euphrates River, and other cities and landmarks.

The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian ... and another rectangle represents the Euphrates River. “You have encapsulated in this circular diagram the whole of the known ...

The research team found that the canals irrigated more than 700 farms in the region, which was inhabited between the sixth until the early first millennium B.C. Fed by the Euphrates River ...

The starkly different realities are playing out along the length of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin, one of the world’s most vulnerable watersheds. River flows have fallen by 40% in the last ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a vast network of canals underneath the world’s oldest city in ... for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates river’s course in the first millennium BC.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's foreign minister said on Monday the government's next target after recovering Syria's Idlib from rebels was the area east of the Euphrates, indicating territory held by ...