The story of how the first cities rose from southern Mesopotamia has long fascinated scientists and historians. Many ...

Ancient Middle Eastern farmers prioritized grapes over olives, irrigating vineyards to sustain wine despite climate stress.

For centuries, the Garden of Eden has existed on the hazy border between myth and memory. Yet recent developments in ...

By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other. Widespread ...

dating back at least 10,000 years with the spread of farming, domesticated animals and new crops into Egypt. Both regions also developed some of the world's first writing systems, hieroglyphs in Egypt ...

Astronomers are pulling back the curtain on two of the universe’s biggest mysteries: how planets are born and how invisible ...

The discovery of Peñico in Peru's Supe Valley is reshaping our understanding of the Caral civilisation – a peaceful society ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 9,500-year-old red-floored building in Turkey, revealing details about the ritual life of ...

International scholars find that Bronze and Iron Age farmers proved resilient in the face of climate change, cultivating ...

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Rashid’s book is as much a people’s history of Mesopotamia as it is a history of objects, great personages and notable events ...

Egypt’s heat and terrain made it difficult for such studies to be conducted but lead researcher Adeline Morez Jacobs and team ...