Over 5,000 years ago, in the scorching heart of ancient Mesopotamia, the city of Uruk rose to become the largest and most advanced settlement in the world. Home to nearly 80,000 people, it boasted ...

Abstract: The conventional Internet of Things-based soil moisture monitoring system for irrigation decision making suffers from huge network traffic, high latency and energy consumption, and ...

Alexandria on the Tigris reemerges as archaeologists map a forgotten port city that once powered ancient global trade.

A gigantic shadow rises, silent and flat, across the alluvial plain of southern present-day Iraq, barely fifteen kilometers from the Iranian border. For centuries, the outlines of a cyclopean wall, ...

The history of our cities has been written in water. In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn ...

Think about walking through ruins that have witnessed empires rise and fall, where kings once ruled and civilizations ...

Ruins of the capital city of Dilmun, on the island of Bahrain, are visible alongside a fort dating to the sixteenth century a.d. Dilmun founded its capital around 2000 b.c., when it increasingly ...

Around 2112 B.C., the Sumerian king Ur-Namma (r. 2112–2095 B.C.) united the city-states of southern Mesopotamia into a short-lived kingdom known today as the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Ur III. More than ...

Abstract: Multi-energy rural microgrids (MERMs) hold both economic potential and multi-energy coordination ability, emerging as a promising energy management paradigm in rural areas. In this paper, an ...