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No unfortunately it isn't, but there is no doubt it was.

Since the Fertile Crescent is the birthplace of agriculture, it has had plenty of time to experience the wear and tear of agriculture. A significant climate change also around 5000 BCE (?) caused mass migrations out of the fertile crescent because of a lack of food.

In Jared Diamond's book Guns, Germs, and Steel, he gives a quick explanation to why the Fertile Crescent is no longer fertile

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