Yahoo News – The Telegraph
By Craig Simpson
Fri, November 17, 2023 at 2:54 PM EST
Ancient Sumerians invented a “civilisation-saving” water channel 4,000 years ago, a British Museum dig has revealed.
Archaeologists working at the ruined city of Girsu in Iraq have discovered the true function of a mysterious structure created by the civilisation.
The inhabitants of the ancient city created a device known as a “flume” to propel water to distant locations where it was needed, thousands of years before this technology was thought to have been discovered.