A region of the Middle East arching across the northern part of the Syrian Desert and extending from the Nile Valley to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The ancient civilizations of Egypt, Phoenicia, ...

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 ...

Sedentism is usually regarded as a pre-condition for the development of crop husbandry in Southwest Asia and, consequently, sedentary pre-agrarian sites are an important focus of research on the ...

Researchers reported 9,200-year-old evidence of plant use and wild cereal harvesting from Toda Cave in southern Uzbekistan, arguing it represented a precursor to agriculture and broadened where and ...

Around 12,800 years ago, the Younger Dryas plunged parts of the world back into near-glacial conditions. Yet in the Fertile Crescent, humanity was laying the foundations of agriculture, villages, and ...