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 ...

A stunning city is one of the world's oldest but it is constantly overshadowed by its more famous neighbour. Luxor is 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 ...

Following the Unesco World Heritage Site on the worldwide list ... Coming fifth is St. Augustine, Florida - which is the oldest city in America, having been founded in 1565.

This tiny sunken city has been underwater for 3,000 years, with its remnants of ancient history now deep in the ocean. Pavlopetri is a small islet off the coast of Laconia in the southern Peloponnese.

Some of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities showcase the ingenuity and resilience of ancient civilizations. Matera, in southern Italy, is a city whose history dates back far.

The oldest continuously occupied settlement in the ... remains a favorite with vacationers centuries later — enough so to vault the small city to the top spot in a new Booking.com user survey ...

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 ...