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 ...
Explore Varanasi—a city where time stands still. With centuries-old temples and architecture, captivating spiritual ...
Some of the oldest skyscrapers in the world especially hold a place in many people's memory books, telling the stories of ...
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 ...
The world's first skyscrapers can be retraced to a once thriving ancient city that had residential high-rise buildings 492 years ago.
One particularly popular city is Madrid ... in 1725 and has since been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest restaurant in the world. It was owned by the descendants of ...
Albany is the capital of New York State and its oldest city. It was first settled in 1614 when Dutch traders built Fort ...