As a middle schooler, you may recall learning about the Fertile Crescent of the ancient world where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers converged. As students we may not have comprehended the importance, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Neolithic era marked ancient humanity’s giant leap from ...

Researchers reported 9,200-year-old evidence of plant use and wild cereal harvesting from Toda Cave in southern Uzbekistan, arguing it represented a precursor to agriculture and broadened where and ...

Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia – the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization. Today, much of that land is turning to dust. By Alissa J. Rubin Photographs and Video by Bryan Denton ...

“A shelf and a half in a borrowed room” is all that Oxford Archaeologist Max Mallowan remembers the Iraq Museum as being back in 1925. But the surge of Arab nationalism that made Iraq independent ...

The first goat farmers created the best breeds for meat, milk and hides by breeding their beasts with wild herds. Humans began domesticating animals more than 10,000 years ago, thereby ensuring a ...

The dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic was a major development in the evolution of modern human culture. Although scientists agree that farming developed independently several times around the world ...