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With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. The main water ...

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Sirwan Regional ProjectBeer drinking cups being excavated at Khani Masi. Scientists have long known that beer played an ...

ADB is working with its developing member countries (DMCs) to help integrate food production, processing, marketing, and distribution to strengthen the resilience and efficiency of food and ...

Learn how environmental changes have humbled many of history’s most successful and dominant cultures.

like those of Mesopotamia, where order, wisdom, and agriculture ruled civilization. This sign shares qualities with Nisaba, the Sumerian goddess of knowledge, organization, and writing—always ...

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Story continues below this ad Before 2500 BC, there were many regional cultures in the Greater Indus region (Sindh, Punjab, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana), with their own artifacts and agricultural ...