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The Varna Necropolis (Bulgarian: Варненски некропол), or Varna Cemetery, is a burial site in the western industrial zone of Varna (approximately half a kilometre from Lake Varna and 4 km from the city centre), internationally considered one of the key archaeological sites in world prehistory. The oldest gold treasure and ...
Jericho is among the oldest cities in the world, [7] [8] [9] and it is also the city with the oldest known defensive wall. [10] Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11,000 years (to 9000 BCE), [ 11 ] [ 12 ] almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of ...
Perhaps the oldest city in Central and South Asia. Also known as Mulasthana or Kashyapapura, this city was founded by Kashyapa , according to Hindu Puranas. [ 116 ] The region is home to numerous archaeological sites dating to the era of the Early Harappan period of the Indus Valley Civilisation .
The site was first used at the dawn of the Southwest Asian Neolithic period, which marked the appearance of the oldest permanent human settlements anywhere in the world. Prehistorians link this Neolithic Revolution to the advent of agriculture, but disagree on whether farming caused people to settle down or vice versa. Göbekli Tepe, a ...
It is the oldest example of prehistoric music. [38] Europe, Baltic: Lithuania: 43–41: Šnaukštai near Gargždai: A hammer made from reindeer horn similar to those used by the Bromme culture was found in 2016. The discovery pushed back the earliest evidence of human presence in Lithuania by 30,000 years, i.e. to before the last glacial period ...
Urbanisation is thought to have begun during the third millennium BC and it developed into a city [3] [2] making it one of the oldest cities in the world, if not the oldest. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. [4] It was in Ancient Byblos that the Phoenician alphabet, likely the ancestor of the Greek, Latin and all other Western alphabets, was ...
Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago, according to a paper published Thursday, Jan. 11 ...
The Sacred City of Caral-Supe, or simply Caral, is an archaeological site in Peru where the remains of the main city of the Caral civilization are found. It is located in the Supe valley of Peru, near the current town of Caral, 182 kilometers north of Lima, 23 km from the coast and 350 metres above sea level. [1]