A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has turned traditional thinking on its head by ...

The Archimedes screw, an ancient Greek invention for lifting water. Learn about its origins, how it works, and its modern ...

These ancient people did not call themselves Yamnaya ... This suggests that the newcomers exterminated the men in the farming ...

A shaduf is a long pole with a bucket attached to the end, which people could use to raise and move water from rivers or lakes onto land. Farming was the basis of the entire Ancient Egyptian ...

Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented ... the paper explained, people began farming within a few thousand years ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region ... Using ancient genomes, researchers have mapped the emergence of agriculture in the Middle East 12,000 years ...

The researchers’ results show that people in Central ... of Mesoamerican agriculture — traditionally seen as maize transforming foragers into farmers upon its arrival to a new location. But our case ...