The Fertile Crescent, often referred to as “the cradle of civilization,” is the crescent-shaped region in Western Asia and North Africa that spans the modern-day countries of Iraq, Turkey, Syria, ...

Archeological evidence suggests that farmers in the Fertile Crescent region (northern regions of the modern countries of Syria and Iraq) used such practices as far back as 6,000 B.C. Medieval ...

Archaeologists trace the origins of domesticated cats to the Fertile Crescent, a region spanning present-day Egypt, Iraq, and ...

The lifeblood of ancient Mesopotamia and modern Iraq is dying. The combination of geopolitics and climate change risks making large swathes of the Fertile Crescent uninhabitable. A studied reader will ...