Why Ancient Cities Were Built on Top of Each Other
Why were ancient cities built on top of each other? Across the Near East, people repeatedly rebuilt on the same ground. At sites such as Aleppo, Çatalhöyük, Tell Brak, and…
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Tell Brak
One of the World’s Oldest Cities is 4,000 Years Older Than the Pyramids
There’s an ancient city in Syria that is said to be one of the oldest cities globally, so old that it even predates the Egyptian pyramids. Called Tell Brak, this…