In the Bible, the Euphrates was even mentioned as one of the four rivers that served the Garden of Eden. But now, in the face of global climate change and human impact, the river is under threat, ...

In the book - actually a set of inscribed clay tablets - Gilgamesh was described as having been buried under the Euphrates, in a tomb apparently constructed when the waters of the ancient river parted ...

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 ...

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

Research released last year undertaken by NASA and the University of California revealed a substantial decrease in the volume of ground water reserves in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the original Garden of Eden may not have been in Mesopotamia, roughly modern-day Iraq, as has been long-assumed — but rather in Egypt, under the towering ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ...

Under its Southeast Anatolia Project ... Next year, his entire 4,500 acres will be watered via the Ataturk Dam on the Euphrates River. Severe water shortages in Europe, the U.S. and China over ...