The Euphrates River is Drying Up

An Elegy for Mesopotamian Civilization

Irrigation was first invented in Mesopotamia around 6000 BC, specifically at the site of Choga Mami, a Samarran mudbrick village located in the region to the east of the Tigris river in southern Iraq (which has retained its name from the city of Uruk, one of the oldest Mesopotamian cities). Its invention was a response to the fact that Mesopotamia, as t…