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 ...

Carved directly into the rock, the town of Matera is one of Italy's most iconic destinations. With its unique architecture, ...

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 ...

Some of the oldest skyscrapers in the world especially hold a place in many people's memory books, telling the stories of ...