Ancient Near East is the birthplace of agriculture, great empires, cities, sciences, arts, mathematics, astronomy, and early writing systems. The present-day Near East is the ... This is still ...

The ancient Near East, a region extending from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea to present-day Afghanistan, was home to several of the world's oldest civilizations. Favored with an ...

Caracol's largest structure, the 138-foot Caana ("Sky Place"), is the tallest building in either ancient or modern Belize ... and autumnal equinoxes (when day and night are of equal length).