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Identifying the preserved network of irrigation canals in the Eridu region, southern Mesopotamia

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The Eridu region in southern Mesopotamia was occupied from the sixth until the early first millennium BC, and its archaeological landscape remains well preserved. The present study has identified and mapped a vast, intensive, well-developed network of artificial irrigation canals in this region.

Source: Antiquity

DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2025.19

Authors: Jaafar Jotheri, Mohammed Rokan, Ali Al-Ghanim, Louise Rayne, Michelle de Gruchy, Raheem Alabdan