Fungi may have shaped Earth’s landscapes long before plants appeared. By combining rare gene transfers with fossil evidence, researchers have traced fungal origins back nearly a billion years earlier ...

An interdisciplinary research project on the development of the earliest forms of agriculture shows that early farming societies began to integrate new cereal varieties into their range of crops ...

Life-sized animal carvings may have served as landmarks to help ancient travelers navigate between life-saving water sources during one of history's harshest climate periods.

Follonico is a romantic Tuscany agriturismo near Montepulciano offering six rooms, swimming pool, full property buyouts, and intimate weddings under the cypress trees.

Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert.

With around 1,800 accredited museums in the UK, we have chosen our favourites for your next culture-filled day out ...

A 4,200-year-old climate shift triggered drought and famine, revealing how ancient societies adapted at the start of the Iron Age.

Farmers have relied on these irrigation ditches for generations. Now, climate change threatens to turn them into relics of the past.

Across the state, farmers, spinners, weavers and knitters strive to slow the runaway train called “fast fashion” as they produce natural plant and animal fibers.

Scholars were wrong about prehistoric Sicily. Davide Tanasi, a professor at the University of South Florida, has new evidence that not only were horses present on the Mediterranean island earlier than ...

Tanasi published his findings — the earliest documented evidence for the presence and consumption of horse meat in early bronze age Sicily — in the peer-reviewed, open access journal PLOS One, ...