The earliest traces of human activity in the city may be found in the Buddha caves, which are close to the community of “Shah Allah Ditta.”
Dinosaur footprints stretching back 100 million years have been discovered in southwestern China by a keen-eyed diner in an outside courtyard of a restaurant.
The data obtained during the excavations in Kültepe Kaniş/Karum Mound, where the first written tablets of Anatolia are found, and the plant pollens obtained during the drilling works in the region, revealed that viticulture was practiced in Kayseri 5,000 years ago.
During the excavations at Ayasuluk Hill in the Selçuk district of İzmir, a 12-square-meter floor covering, which is thought to date back to approximately 800 years, was unearthed.
Let’s take a brief look at Beijing city’s past. Modern human settlements — with agriculture, pottery, and jade working, dating to the Neolithic era (about 7000 years ago) have been discovered in Huairou, Pinggu, Changping, and other outlying districts.
Explorers have located the world’s deepest shipwreck in the Philippine Sea at a depth of 6,895 meters (22,621 ft).