Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, known as cradles of the Mesopotamian civilisation, are yearning for water. Flows have ...

Mesopotamia, the world's oldest civilisation, arose in ancient Iraq, pioneering writing, law, and science. Explore its ...

In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

File photo of 551 hectares of farmland in Bula, Camarines Sur, which now has a continuous supply of water, thanks to the National Irrigation Administration’s (NIA) solar-powered irrigation project, ...

For more than a century, the standard story has held that Sumerian cities rose only after powerful rulers dug vast canal networks between the Tigris and Euphrates. Those canals unlocked large-scale ...

When Kevin Haggerty drives around the farms south of Bozeman, he sees more than just the dense development and traffic. He sees the area where his mother was born in a cabin, fields his ancestors ...

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More than five thousand years ago, in the fertile lowlands of southern Mesopotamia, the world’s first cities began to rise from the mud. Historians have long credited this explosion of ...

In the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, a team of archaeologists and geologists has accomplished a remarkable feat. They have successfully mapped a large and complex network of irrigation canals ...

An almond orchard in Parlier provides a look into the future of farming. Researchers at UC Merced and the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources installed an irrigation system ...