It is faster to move cargo along the river system or ancient canals than to use the roads.

In 1900 the ancient canal was replaced by the new Elbe-Lübeck Canal.

The two mounds, as is typical in the region, are separated by the dry bed of an ancient canal, the Shatt en-Nil.

Fight that sinking sensation by floating on the ancient canals at Xochimilco.

The topography consists of two sub-mounds separated by what is apparently the bed of an ancient canal.

The first is Xochimilco, a network of ancient canals and gardens at the city's southern edge, easily reached by subway or taxi.

A busy, scruffy town, buzzing with activity at the end of the ancient canal which separates Levkas Island from the mainland.

This was his main research and, by the 1950s, he had done extensive mapping of ancient canals in Peru.

For thousands of years, the ancient canal has been the largest river of Changzhou.

German forces were mainly deployed in the ancient city centre shielded in part by an ancient canal.