“The present study has identified and mapped a vast, intensive, well-developed network of artificial irrigation ... The elevated river levees, naturally formed banks along the Euphrates River ...

Study authors mapped what had been preserved of the archaeological landscape and discovered what they called a “well-developed network of artificial ... River’s highly elevated levees enabled ...

Since then, every generation of settlers to the region has attempted to control the river by building levees, or protective, raised embankments, alongside it. Prior to 1882, Mississippi Delta ...