The existential question of which countries are the oldest has long intrigued historians, and for good reason. However, defining what makes a country "old" is challenging, as it depends on historical ...
Elon Musk warns that falling birth rates could threaten civilization itself. Global population growth has already slowed ...
Bulgarian construction workers unearthed the world's oldest gold treasure in 1972, dating back to 4600 BC. The Varna Necropolis revealed over 13 pounds of meticulously crafted gold artifacts, ...
Archaeological discoveries in China, including fire traces from 50,000 years ago and the grid-planned capital of the Xia ...
A Greenland shark swimming through the North Atlantic today may have been alive before the modern world existed. Researchers ...
Damascus International Book Fair this year offers more than books, it tells the story of Syria’s enduring intellectual legacy. From ...
The Bhimbetka site, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, captures the continuous presence of human life from the Lower Palaeolithic Age, roughly 100,000 years ago, to the Medieval period.
An ancient inscription found in Sinai shows how Egypt claimed power beyond the Nile more than 5,000 years ago.
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While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...
Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.
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