The ancient city of Petra ... Researchers say extensive terrace farming and dam construction in an agricultural suburb north of Petra began about 2,000 years ago — sometime before the Romans ...

The Hani people began building terraces as part of farming, but their works turned ... it as one of the seven forms of arable lands in ancient China. Stretching along the southern banks of the ...

A millet-farming settlement on the Shandong coast in Neolithic China around 4,500 years ago organized its society by maternal lineage, according to researchers at Peking University. Ancient DNA from ...

Xiatang is the southernmost of the 24 sites associated with the Shangshan culture. Echoing with Lyu's research, at Xiatang, ...

"I have never expected that our terraced fields could become an important kind of agricultural heritage in the world. Nowadays, many Internet users have come to know about them," said Liu Zhikai ...

Terrace farming is an ancient practice, and one that we are continually finding new evidence of in long-gone civilizations. As recently as 2013, researchers found that terrace farming was used ...

The three sites are an ancient tea-producing ... and a rain-fed stone terrace farming system in Shexian county in Hebei province. Eighteen sites in China have now been added to the FAO’s list ...

The ancient city of Petra ... Researchers say extensive terrace farming and dam construction in an agricultural suburb north of Petrabegan about 2,000 years ago — sometime before the Romans ...