As a middle schooler, you may recall learning about the Fertile Crescent of the ancient world where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers converged. As students we may not have comprehended the importance, ...
The Fertile Crescent of the Middle East has long been identified as a "cradle of civilization" for humans. In a new genetic study, researchers at UC Davis, have concluded that all ancestral roads for ...
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 ...
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 ...
Monika Lipinksi, left, a genetics doctoral student, holds a Bengal somoli cat while veterinary professor Leslie Lyon holds a Persian cat. The Fertile Crescent of the Middle East has long been ...
Excavation of a Neolithic storage bin at the Masis Blur Neolithic settlement on the Ararat Plain, Armenia. Masis Blur Archaeological Project, 2022 Genome-wide DNA data collected from people who lived ...