They are thought to be dedicated to the Great Earth Mother goddess and, legend says, constructed by giants.The newspaper Telegraph presents a list with the 20 oldest continually-inhabited cities on earth. the ancient temples of Ġgantija were built on Gozo Island in Malta, among the oldest Neolithic structures in the world.
A nearby cable car takes visitors west to the Mountain of Temptation, where Jesus is said to have been tempted by the devil. Jericho’s walls came tumbling down, and their ruins are the major tourist venue in this West Bank city established perhaps 11,000 years ago, among the oldest inhabited sites in the world. Potok Cave, SloveniaĬro-Magnon people-the first anatomically modern humans-found shelter in this central European cave complex, using the nearly 23,000 feet (7,010 meters) of limestone tunnels as a ritual site or hunting station some 36,000 years ago in what is modern Slovenia. Discovered in 1940 in what is today southwest France, the cave is closed to the public, but a replica is open for visitors. Over 2,000 images of horses, cows, cats, birds, and their human hunters seem as vivid today as when they were painted in these caves more than 17,000 years ago. Thought to be more than 40,000 years old, many of the images are stencils of ancient hands made by artists blowing paint from their mouths. Some of the oldest known paintings in the world are in the Cave of the Castle, in Cantabria in the north of Spain. Now in a desert, the giant temple complex is thought by some to be the inspiration for the biblical Garden of Eden. Photograph by Richard Hewitt Stewart, National Geographic Göbekli Tepe, Turkeyīuilt beginning in the tenth millennium B.C., Göbekli Tepe seems a re-creation of paradise, with stelae carved in images of exotic plants and animals.
The Olmec civilization, the first in Mesoamerica, offers valuable clues into the development of the rest of the region. Archaeologists study a colossal Olmec stone head in La Venta, Mexico in this 1947 National Geographic photo.
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