[SunkenCiv]

The reconstructed irrigation canal network in context with the ancient Euphrates riverbed and the archaeological sites of the Eridu region. The base map is a Corona satellite image.

Credit: Jaafar Jotheri et al, Antiquity

[BenLurkin]

World’s first city that wasn’t submerged by the glacier melts.

[one guy in new jersey]

Sixth millennium BC?

Doubt.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

What do you think of the idea that the organization of building and maintaining the canals was what led to what was essentially the first organized military units? As opposed to the war band concept that proceeded them.

[Red Badger]

Eridid?..............