Back before most churches existed, early Christians would gather in neighbourhood homes known as house churches. In fact, the word ‘church’ was also used to describe the Christian community as a whole – the word itself means ‘assembly’ in Greek. By the 1st-century AD, there were already...
The settlement of Poliochni, located on the east coast of Lemnos Island (northeast Aegean), stands out as one of the largest early urban centres in the Early Bronze Age Aegean. It is often referred to as the “oldest city in Europe” due to its remarkable urban planning and richness of ...
The Shambles is an old street in York, England, and one of the best-preserved medieval shopping streets in Europe. With its cobbled streets and overhanging timber-framed buildings, It was even mentioned in the Doomsday Book of William the Conqueror in 1086, and many of the buildings on the ...
Home to the oldest human-made worship site discovered to date,Gobekli Tepein modern Turkey was built between about9,600 and 8,200 BCE. AlongsideÇatalhöyük,(another, albeit slightly younger, Neolithic settlement in the region) Gobekli Tepe reveals information about the activities...
Street istheoldeststreet in Yangshuo with a history of more than 1,400 years. shangri-la.com shangri-la.com 阳朔西街位于当地市中心,拥有1,400多年的历史,是那里最古老的街道。 shangri-la.com shangri-la.com Topics covered will include the basicsofwinegrowing,thewinesofItaly and the world, and ...
The oldest pair of pants in the world is 3,300 years old, and it was found in Western China. (Image credits: M Wagner/German Archaeological Institute) Oldest “Flush” Toilets (2,000 years old) Ephesus, an ancient city in Turkey, had “flushing” toilets. Running water below the seats...
Population genetic analyses indicate that wild einkorn clusters into three distinct groups (races α, β and γ) and point to a region around the Karacadağ mountains in Southeastern Turkey as the site of einkorn domestication11,12,13,14,15,16,17. Here we establish and analyse a ...
Mediterranean Sea is the country’s oldest city and a major crossroads for the civilizations that have thrived across the basin since it was founded as “Massilia” around 600 BCE by Greek settlers who came from Phocaea, a city on the western coast of Anatolia, now in modern-day Turkey. ...
Closely related to the sighthounds depicted in the temple drawings from 6,000 BC discovered in present-day Turkey, the Greyhound is one of the oldest dog breeds in the world. While some are convinced the dog depicted on graves, inscriptions, and tomb paintings was, in fact, a Greyhound, ...