A major study using data from more than a thousand archaeological sites examines the transition from primitive egalitarianism ...

In Western Sahara, a small green revolution is being led by women in the harshest of conditions. Their goal: to build a network of gardens in the desert.

“We now have strong evidence that farming life in this region didn ... rather than early Neolithic sites in western Iran or Mesopotamia. These Iranian sites, often overlooked in grand narratives ...

A documentary that dives deep into a subject that’s literally shaped the island: copper will have its first screening on May ...

Between Two Rivers, by Oxford scholar Moudhy Al-Rashid, tells the story of ancient Mesopotamia, a period in world history ... the first record of beer production and advances in agriculture. The world ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

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Researchers have found strong evidence of beer brewing as far back as the Neolithic period (10,000 to 4,000 years ago), when ...

SHEEP are part of our landscape and they created the views we enjoy today by strimming up after fussier cows.

An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from ...

During the Bronze Age, thousands of Cypriot copper ingots were exported to Egypt, Mesopotamia ... director Papageorgiou and Agriculture Minister Maria Panagiotou. The documentary screening ...