UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Kathleen DuVal recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Native Nations," which ...

really at the genesis of agricultural technology, the ancient Egyptians made wine and made rising dough for bread, using fermentation. A significant event in the development of agriculture ...

Much of this epic history has been lost to antiquity. But Harry Paris, a horticulturalist at the Agricultural Research ... must be teased out of medical books, travelogs, recipes, and religious ...

New research is changing the way that historians understand ancient farming culture in North Africa. In a study published in the journal Antiquity, archaeologists write about the discovery of a ...