St. Augustine boasts the oldest known St. Patrick's Day parade, which started in 1601. It predates such processions in Boston ...

The irrigation network consists of over 200 primary canals, some of which stretch up to nine kilometers in length and are ...

New research in Sumerian Eridu, the oldest known city, has mapped thousands of canals and farms, shedding light on the ...

From the millennia-old metropolises of the Middle East to ancient South American settlements, the world is dotted with cities that tell the story of civilisation itself. Pinning down a definitive list ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pavlopetri is recognised by UNESCO as the oldest underwater city in the world. Since its discovery, archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have visited the area to complete further ...