Oldest and biggest Maya temple was built to depict the cosmos

The artificial plateau made from earth, with connecting causeways, canals and corridors, was built in southeastern Mexico ...
Greek Reporter

How America’s Earliest Civilization Survived a Deadly Climate Shift

Archaeologists revealed how America's earliest civilization survived a deadly climate shift 4,200 years ago by relocating and ...
Yahoo

Archaeologists Dug up a 3,500-Year-Old Lost City from the Americas’ Oldest Civilization

After eight years of research, experts have unearthed 18 structures so far, including residential homes and ceremonial temples. Experts believe the city—since named Peñico—was once a thriving urban ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

This is considered the oldest living city in the Americas

THE OLDEST LIVING CITY IN THE AMERICAS. THIS IS CUSCO, PERU, THE CAPITAL OF THE INCAN EMPIRE. IT’S ALIVE AND IT’S UP THERE AT 11,000FT. THE ELEVATION IS MORE THAN TWICE AS HIGH AS DENVER. BUT ...

What is the oldest city in Arizona? This one takes the title

Native people have been occupying Arizona for thousands of years, but it wasn't until 1877 that Arizona's first city was ...
The Telegraph

Socially distanced layout of the world’s oldest cities helped early civilization evade diseases

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) R. Alexander Bentley, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) In my research ...
Yahoo

Scientists Found a 12,000-Year-Old Monument—Turns Out It May Be Humanity’s Oldest Calendar

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Carvings on a 12,000-year-old monument in Turkey appear to mark solar days and years, making it possibly the oldest solar calendar in ancient ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Ancient High-Status Woman Was Buried With a Parrot-Feather Cape and a Beaded Toucan’s Beak in Modern-Day Peru

The burial was discovered in the remains of a building in an ancient fishing town. Peru Ministry of Culture Around 5,000 years ago, members of an ancient Peruvian Indigenous group buried an elite ...