People have lived at Jericho for around 11,000 years without a break. It holds the oldest known town wall and tower on Earth, and some of humanity’s first portraits — the haunting plastered skulls of its Neolithic dead.

At a Neolithic village in China, people made flutes from crane bones that still play a musical scale nine thousand years later, brewed an ancient rice drink, and carved mysterious symbols. Meet Jiahu.

Imagine an illiterate teenage girl from a remote village, with no military training and no standing whatsoever, walking into the court of a desperate prince and announcing that God had

Beside a dry riverbed in Rajasthan lie the twin mounds of Kalibangan, an Indus town that gave us the world’s oldest ploughed field, a possible earliest recorded earthquake, and mysterious fire altars.

Just 30 km from Göbekli Tepe lies an 11,000-year-old site that is rewriting history in real time. With its haunting chamber of pillars and lifelike human carvings, Karahan Tepe proves a whole lost world once thrived here.

Arrowheads made of copper alloy steel with engraving and inlay applied on them, date from 1437-39. Kayı Tribe Tamgas were engraved on these arrowheads belonging to the period of Murad

Those who were attracted to the plant scientist Henrik Printz, who was doing research in Siberia and Mongolia in 1920 to write scripts on plant science, especially from Khakassia. Kürşad

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