New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts in the world. Parts of the region receive less than an inch of rain in an entire ...

Farmers have relied on these irrigation ditches for generations. Now, climate change threatens to turn them into relics of the past. Albuquerque’s South Valley is surrounded by brown desert and ...

An international group of archaeologists recently discovered a vast, well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals near Eridu in southern Iraq, regarded as the world’s first city. The discovery ...

Ari Caramanica receives funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it’s one of the driest deserts ...