Excavations at Tell Ramad, on the outskirts of the city, have shown that Damascus was inhabited as early as 8,000 to 10,000 BC ...

Step back in time at the ruins of one of the oldest cities in the world. This massive Peruvian pyramid complex is the ideal ...

For more than a century, scholars have largely agreed that the oldest cities in the world were built in Mesopotamia, mostly in modern-day Iraq, starting in the 5th millennium B.C.E. These early ...

This article was originally published with the title “ From the Oldest City in the World ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 134 No. 1 (January 1926), p. 33 doi:10.1038 ...

Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is the world’s oldest farming village ... Were new disease vectors too much for these ancient cities? The mega-settlements of Trypillia were abandoned ...

Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is the world’s oldest farming village, from over 9,000 years ago ... Were new disease vectors too much for these ancient cities? The mega-settlements of Trypillia ...

A beautiful country with hardly any tourists is home to one of the oldest European cities which is really cheap to get to from the UK. Plovdiv in Bulgaria is considered one of the world's oldest ...

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