Ancient Euphrates once flowed into the Mediterranean, new study suggests

Millions of years before the first cities emerged in Mesopotamia, the Euphrates River followed a very different path from the one known today. Rather than flowing southeast through present-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq toward the Persian Gulf, the river system may once have consisted of two separate waterways that drained into the eastern Mediterranean Sea. […] The post Ancient Euphrates once flowed into the Mediterranean, new study suggests first appeared on Dailynewsegypt.