Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University of Chicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, refers to a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and ...

New research suggests that Neolithic communities living in the Middle East experimented with recipes and baked large ...

A recently discovered palace in modern-day Iraq dates back 4,500 years and is said to contain the key to understanding the ...

Focaccia is one of the most popular Italian baked goods. Surprisingly, it turns out it was probably baked centuries ago!

Archaeologists recently analyzed fragments of large, oval bowls previously found in the Fertile Crescent, an area between major rivers spanning several modern-day countries in the Middle East.

the fully agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, developed a complex culinary tradition that included the baking of large loaves of bread and “focaccias ...

Located in Western Asia, at the very heart of the Middle East, the Euphrates-Tigris river system fed farmable land in the fertile crescent, which became the roots of human civilization with the ...

Iran has been relentlessly pushing its agenda to dominate the region, particularly in the Fertile Crescent, stretching fro ...

Focaccia breads from the prehistoric Fertile Crescent were baked in trays lined with animal fat and sprinkled with ...

Their findings, detailed in a November 5 study published in the journal Scientific Reports, strongly suggests that Late Neolithic people in the Fertile Crescent region enjoyed a rich—and ...

A new study indicates that during the Late Neolithic, between 7000 and 5000 BCE, the fully agricultural communities in the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, developed a complex culinary ...