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

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 ...

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

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 ...

posted a clip explaining the "hack" that he learned from ancient indigenous farming communities. Mike said, "I think [this] is going to revolutionize the way we talk about growing our own food on ...

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 ...

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 ...