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 ...

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 ...

ICARDA lab employee Bilal Inaty cuts a lentil plant in order to test it for various diseases at the ICARDA research station in the village of Terbol in Lebanon's Bekaa valley, on Dec. 21, 2022. (Dalia ...

STORY: The Middle East's Fertile Crescent is drying up. It's an arc sweeping from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf - nourished by the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers... Location: Aleppo countryside, ...

“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 ...

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TERBOL, Lebanon — Inside a large freezer room at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, tens of thousands of seeds are stored at a constant temperature of minus-4 degrees ...