crop seeds

2,500-year-old crop seeds discovered

Archaeologists have found crop seeds as old as 2,500 years in Bogura's Mahasthangarh.

Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vault

Syria's civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of crop seeds from a "doomsday" vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies.

March 2, 2019
March 2, 2019

2,500-year-old crop seeds discovered

Archaeologists have found crop seeds as old as 2,500 years in Bogura's Mahasthangarh.

September 22, 2015
September 22, 2015

Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from doomsday Arctic seed vault

Syria's civil war has prompted the first withdrawal of crop seeds from a "doomsday" vault built in an Arctic mountainside to safeguard global food supplies.