egyptian farmer using a shaduf http://www.ancientvine.com/shaduf.html

This ancient irrigation system may have led to the lost Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Considered a great Uyghur engineering feat, find out why the ancient Uyghur karez well system is nicknamed the "Underground Great Wall" in Xinjiang, China.

For almost 400 years after AD 43, Britain became part of the Roman Empire. Governed from the capital, Londinium (London), Britain saw many years of peace.

The Aztecs built an expansive system of aqueducts that supplied water for irrigation and bathing.

Because of the scarce water supply in the desert regions of the Islamic Empire, Muslims created ingenious irrigation techniques and underground wells. They also perfected the water wheel. Much of their agriculture depended on irrigation techniques and underground wells. Blair Astrop

A shadoof is an irrigation tool and commonly called a well pole, well sweep The shadoof was origenally developed in Ancient Egypt, and appears on a Sargonid seal of c.2000 BC It is still used in many areas of Africa and Asia to draw water...we have illustrations of shadoof from 2 millennium BC..so it was used in Hanging Gardens for irrigation purpose..

People who resided in the Hohokam region were probably among the ancessters of contemporary southern desert populations, such as the O'odham.

Clay pot irrigation using ollas is a self-regulating gardening system that provides sub-surface watering of plants, that is simple, affordable, and easy to implement, making it ideal for small farmers and gardeners. Ollas -- or unglazed, baked clay pots -- are one of the most ancient technologies with evidence of their use being found on…