For decades, the prevailing narrative of agriculture pointed to the Middle East. The “Fertile Crescent” was cast as the ...

The “Fertile Crescent,” the cradle of Middle Eastern and global civilization, is currently undergoing structural shifts whose repercussions are difficult to gauge in a world where everything moves in ...

Around 12,800 years ago, the Younger Dryas plunged parts of the world back into near-glacial conditions. Yet in the Fertile Crescent, humanity was laying the foundations of agriculture, villages, and ...

Ancient DNA from an Egyptian genome has been sequenced for the first time, revealing genetic links to the Fertile Crescent.

Jeffrey Hudson’s cat Sola reached the age of 19, totally deaf and almost completely blind, but she loved the things she loved ...

Saudi Arabia’s Heritage Commission says the find marks a scientific turning point, linking northwest Saudi Arabia to the ...

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Archaeologists have learned about the lives of the world’s earliest farmers, how they traveled, and socialized in Neolithic ...

Three newly discovered sites filled with art and stone tools have pushed back the date of when humans returned to Arabia ...

The research team conducted an in-depth study of the evolution and domestication of barley (Hordeum vulgare). They focused on so-called haplotypes ...

In the village of Sarnijmar, Kurdish women keep an ancient tradition alive, using the Destar hand-mill to grind grain in a ...