Child: Ow! There’s some stone from your quern in my bread. Ancient Egyptian person: Ok, we’re good at farming, but we’re not perfect. The ancient Egyptians based their farming around the ...

Among these discoveries are also success stories, where ancient farming practices helped civilizations survive the hard times. Zuni farmers in the southwestern United States made it through long ...

Fifty million years before humankind began farming, ancient ants were already in the agriculture business. Over time, leafcutter ants have evolved a complex system of agriculture in their nests ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies ...

Dr Onstine explained that ancient Egyptians could "use the river's energy ... Ancient Egypt - and remains so to this day. Thousands of farmers expected to take part in a march on Whitehall ...