A perfect storm blew silver, the blue metal, up more than gold or copper, both of which rose to new record highs early this ...

Thus, Buddha appeared in bronzes from India, Pakistan, China, Thailand and Japan, representing various periods and regional ...

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

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

As a fan of history, I distinctly remember some of the oldest manmade ... The altar was built by the Ozieri culture, a hunter-gatherer Neolithic group that was slowly developing agriculture and animal ...

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

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

Using a mathematical model, researchers have shed new light on the transition from hunter-gatherer to farming societies. Rather than focusing exclusively on external factors, they looked at internal ...

we'll hear about the history of sugarbeet farming from some farmers who lived it. And we'll take you to the region's sweetest harvest.

Archaeology often describes the rise of power and hierarchy in early Mesopotamia as a move from small, equal communities to big, complex societies run by cities, kings, and bureaucrats.

Riverside residents streamed into the Farm House Collective on opening day and immediately put it to use. The property was originally the Farm House Motel, a 1953 motor court that local developers ...