Have you ever wondered which is actually the oldest city in the world? The answer takes us far back—to a time when people began to organize their lives permanently in one place. Long before modern ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

Earliest cities: Dense with people and animals Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is the world's oldest farming village, from over 9,000 years ago. Many thousands of people lived in mud-brick houses ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

In my research focused on early farmers of Europe, I have often wondered about a curious pattern through time: Farmers lived in large dense villages, then dispersed for centuries, then later formed ...

Visit ancient religious and cultural centers that have shaped the ways we view the world. Many of the Ancient Cities that helped shape the modern world endure to this day. In this episode we journey ...

What do cities reveal about us? Not just our engineering or art, but our longings—what we value, what we revere, how we choose to live together. William Frej’s new book, Unforgotten: Ancient Cities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavations at Çatalhöyük show how closely people lived before the settlement collapsed. Mark Nesbitt/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY In ...