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 cities again, only to abandon those as well. Murat Özsoy 1958/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Earliest cities: Dense with people and animals Çatalhöyük, in present-day Turkey, is the world’s …
8,600 years ago, a baker in Turkey mixed flour and water to make bread dough, pressed it to check its readiness and then didn’t bake it. This particular bread that was left uncooked near an oven has now been dubbed as the world’s oldest by archaeologists. According to Necmettin Erbakan University’s Science and Technology Research and Application Center, archaeologists have …
The enduring allure of lost cities Luso/Getty Images After Mount Vesuvius' eruption, Pompeiians at once began rebuilding new lives nearby Tales of mysterious ruins have long enchanted travellers from afar, but those stories may hide something even more fascinating – and adverse. "For probably thousands of years, people have been telling adventure stories about dramatic lands beyond our borders – …
