JERUSALEM, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- Israeli researchers have revealed botanical art created over 8,000 years ago by early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia, which features distinct mathematical ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

Set up in 1907, the College of Agriculture in Pune was one of India’s first five agricultural colleges. Between 1916 and 1919 ...

Mesopotamia, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now known as Iraq—is often called the cradle of ...

On a dry patch of Peru’s central coast, archaeologists are decoding a chilling message carved into clay over four millennia ...

New research reveals why not just agriculture but also cereal grains were crucial to the formation of humanity’s first states ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

New findings add weight to the theory that states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.

ABSTRACT: Soil fertility is a determining factor for agricultural productivity and food security. This study aims to map the spatial variability of soil fertility parameters (nitrogen, pH, and carbon) ...

A clay tablet with proto-cuneiform writing. Image credits: Jim Kuhn/Wikimedia Commons. Imagine a world without written records — no books, no laws, no way to document discoveries or communicate ideas ...

Serdar Yalçin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Revolutionary new research challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, revealing that tidal dynamics at the head of the Persian Gulf were ...