Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard, has been trending on social media for a couple of weeks now. It started last ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this ...

The transition to agriculture and a sedentary lifestyle is one of the great turning points in human history. Yet how this Neolithic way of life spread ...

The Pleistocene-Holocene transition is a very significant period of time, because it marks what I believe is the true foundartions for the origins of civilisation, when we see the first permanent ...

In contrast to the fertile and abundant lands, which once prospered with agriculture, today, most of the lands here are barren and parched. Fishermen, farmers, and boatbuilders, among others, are ...

The unusually fertile soil of the Fertile Crescent, its productive water flow, and brackish marshes led to technological innovations like the wheel, writing, and advanced agriculture.

Human-made climate change is driving a yearslong extreme drought in Iran, Iraq and Syria, an area that encompasses a region known as the Fertile Crescent and a cradle of civilization, scientists ...

By about 1,000 years later, all of the Neolithic “founder crops” — emmer wheat, einkorn wheat, hulled barley, rye, peas, lentils, bitter vetch, chickpeas and flax — were being cultivated in what is ...