Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy, who lived in Egypt, built upon Babylonian knowledge in his geocentric model of the ...

New discoveries at an ancient city in Iraq, including written tablets and a game board, may shed light on its hidden history.

This one is quite large, so you can scale up and down depending on your crop needs, whether that’s farming wheat, potatoes, carrots, or beetroots. No, not the George Orwell type. This simple and ...

The high proportions of fragmentary legumes and cereals appear to result from post-depositional processes, including burning during the collapse of the rooms, rather than evidence of food preparation ...

First female burial with weapons discovered in Hungary Unveiling complex gender roles in 10th-century Hungary SH-63 burial challenges traditional assumptions about women ...

Now, Chufei Agriculture’s services cover about 40 per cent of the farmland in Anlu. With unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) sowing seeds or spraying pesticides and fertilisers, yields are up for ...

Five thousand years ago, in the Babylonian civilisation of Mesopotamia, people used to make resolutions. New crops were grown in the new year, and in such circumstances, people promised the king to ...

The Centre on Wednesday (January 1, 2025) extended two crop insurance schemes — PMFBY and RWBCIS — for one more year till 2025-26 and also created a separate ₹824.77 crore fund for ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday that the government's first decision in the New Year is dedicated to farmers, as the Union Cabinet headed by him enhanced allocation to crop insurance ...

It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or simply pleasure. Bulb-like corms, at top, produce saffron crocuses.