A recent study challenges conventional wisdom by emphasizing the importance of human interactions in the transition from ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

What are the best farming games on PC? There’s something about the repetitive nature of tilling and planting a field. Witnessing the slow payoff of your crops growing makes you feel in tune with ...

For thousands of years, ancient Mesopotamia was a land of agriculture since the two main rivers surrounded the Fertile Crescent, where the first civilizations thrived on crops and livestock. Fast ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Marked with the administrative details of government, the tablets have illuminated the complicated bureaucracy of an ancient Mesopotamian civilization. The tablets were discovered in the Sumerian ...

This project was funded by EPA, Victoria. Compost applied to agricultural soils in Australia each year contains tonnes of microplastics, our research has revealed. These microplastics can harm ...

It marked a major shift in human history as societies transitioned from hunting and gathering to farming. This sparked migrations across Europe and dramatically reshaped the continent’s gene pool.

Farming Simulator 23 Android is a comprehensive first-person farm simulator featuring realistic 3D graphics developed by Giants Software. This new installment of the saga comes from Netflix, which ...

Even though the days of the FarmVille craze are long gone (although you can still play it on Facebook), farming games are still out there, better than ever – and you can play them offline, without an ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...