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Over 200 canals and 4,000 smaller channels identified in Iraq The system supplied water to farms before the first millennium B.C. A shift in the Euphrates River led to the canals becoming obsolete ...

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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.

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