Good News Notes: “Archaeologists in Oman have found 4,000-year-old stone board game at a Bronze and Iron Age settlement site near the village of Ayn Bani Saidah in the northern Hajar mountains’ Qumayrah Valley. “Such finds are rare, but examples are known from an area stretching from India, through Mesopotamia even to the Eastern Mediterranean,”…
Tag: Mesopotamia
How Microdrip Irrigation Systems Use Less Water and Could Change Farming Forever
Good News Notes: “On the bone-dry western flank of Arizona, where the Colorado River Basin meets the Mojave Desert, sit 11,000 acres of alfalfa, sorghum, wheat, and Sudan grass belonging to the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), all destined to be harvested and sold for animal feed. For anything to grow here, irrigation is a…
Seleucid, Parthian and Islamic relics unearthed in west-central Iran
Good News Notes: “The sixth archaeological season to discover Laodicea Temple has so far led to the discovery of artifacts from the Seleucid, Parthian, and Islamic (Ilkhanid) periods, while archaeologists continue to their search for the ancient temple,” Mohsen Khanjan, who leads the excavation, said on Wednesday, ILNA reported. One of the walls of Dokhaharan’s…