“Among the oldest in the world, the settlement redraws the map of the emergence of civilizations ... from mobility to settlement were tied to mutual influence with the Fertile Crescent,” Al-Zahrani ...

As a steady stream of vehicles whooshed by on Highway 82 one recent morning, Two Roots Farm workers buzzed around at a variety of tasks in an enclave tucked behind the old Emma schoolhouse. The ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University ...

A rich trove of artifacts and plant remains excavated from southwestern Iran suggest that ancient humans’ transition from hunting and gathering to farming occurred throughout the Fertile Crescent at ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA of Neolithic domestic goats to reveal that the goats were introduced into the Southern Caucasus from the Fertile Crescent during the early sixth millennium BC, ...

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American troops making their way north to Baghdad have been marching through the “cradle of civilization.” The plains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers also supposedly mark the start of the ...

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, ...

Populations in the ancient Fertile Crescent are the ancestors of modern day South Asians but not of Europeans, new research shows. The earliest farmers from the Zagros mountains in Iran, i.e., the ...

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 ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The Middle East's Fertile Crescent is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in its history — and climate change has made it worse. Rising temperatures, driven by human greenhouse ...