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 ...

A flash flood in southeastern Iran exposed evidence of a previously unknown Bronze Age civilization. This episode traces how ...

A new study investigated the landscape of Sumer to determine the conditions that allowed the cradle of civilization to flourish. Sumer, the site of the earliest known civilization, is in south-central ...

Tense moments overnight for people in the North Bay as water rushed into the Wright's Beach Campground in Sonoma County. Campers were forced to evacuate in the dark to get to higher ground. "The water ...