In the mid-1960s, a Soviet military topographer was analyzing aerial photos of Ukraine when he came across some unusual shadows. Looking closely at the patterns of plants in a number of fields, he ...

Many of the oldest inhabited cities in Greece are still standing against all odds. They have survived to this day to tell the ...

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 ...

Pavlopetri is recognised by UNESCO as the oldest underwater city in the world. Since its discovery, archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have visited the area to complete further ...

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 ...

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 ...