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

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 ...

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 ...