The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made ...

As one of the first civilizations to adopt Christianity, Aksum played a crucial role in shaping the religious landscape of ...

George Steinmetz Outlines of a Civilization Emerge ... “This data pushed back the oldest known dates for an urban center in the Americas by more than 1,000 years.” What amazed archaeologists ...

TEHRAN - In a newly revisited global ranking published by the World Population Review, Iran has been officially recognized as ...

Settled around 4500 B.C.E. in modern-day Iraq, Sumer is the world’s oldest known civilization. During the third millennium B.C.E., Sumerians built Girsu, a “megacity,” and dedicated it to ...

Gobekli Tepe, an ancient site in southeastern Turkey, is believed to be the world's oldest known building ... long-held beliefs about early human civilization. Dr Martin Sweatman, from the ...

It contains the oldest known temple. Indeed ... Most archaeologists believed this sudden blossoming of civilization was driven largely by environmental changes: a gradual warming as the Ice ...