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 ...

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 ...

The Pleistocene-Holocene transition is a very significant period of time, because it marks what I believe is the true foundartions for the origins of civilisation, when we see the first permanent ...

For decades archaeologists have been searching for the origins of agriculture. Their findings indicated that early plant domestication took place in the western and northern Fertile Crescent. In a ...

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh believe they have identified a prehistoric calendar memorializing a comet strike at the Göbekli Tepe archaeological site in Turkey. The calendar, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hulu has handed a straight-to-series order to James Purefoy-fronted Fertile Crescent (w/t), an eight-episode drama from Fremantle and The Young Pope producer Haut et Court TV. The digital platform ...

Haut et Court TV, the French outfit behind “The Young Pope,” “The Last Panthers” and the original “The Returned,” is teaming with Eitan Mansuri’s Israel-based Spiro Films and ...

Ancient plant remains suggest that the domestication of cereals, which led to the beginning of agriculture, appeared at different times in the Levant and in the eastern Fertile Crescent. Some ...