Agriculture arose in many parts of the Fertile Crescent at once ... Archaeologists map lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that lasted 1,000 years. Jan. 12, 2024.

First domesticated cats traced back 12,000 years to the Mediterranean's 'Fertile Crescent region' near modern-day Iraq: Early farmers kept felines to ward off pests ...

These three skeletons were about 10,000 years old, and their DNA was more degraded than the DNA from the man in Wezmeh Cave. Still, the researchers were able to tell that all four had “very ...

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 ...

Human-made climate change is driving a yearslong extreme drought in Iran, Iraq and Syria, an area that encompasses a region known as the Fertile Crescent and a cradle of civilization, scientists ...