From Mesopotamia News Today

Olive trees were cultivated around monasteries and churches, and monks often had the time to turn dull, unproductive lands into olive-producing fields.

John Perlin's sweeping, civilizational history 'A Forest Journey' is being revived by Patagonia, the Ventura-based outfitter's publishing imprint.

For thousands of years the Indian state of Kerala has been a centre of commerce for Middle Eastern merchants with the region also producing traditional Gulf Arab boats

From Mesopotamia to Egypt and all over the Mediterranean, the common characteristic of the first farming settlements was that they were all built near ri...