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Tigris

River flowing from Turkey through Iraq and Syria

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Jan 22, 2026

What time year did civilization begin and what parts of the world where they located

Scholars place the transition from scattered to recognizable “” across a broad span: transformative settlement and monumental activity appears as early as the tenth millennium BCE in parts of the Near...

Dec 12, 2025

When and where did the first civilizations emerge and what defines a civilization?

Archaeologists and historians generally place the first civilizations in river-valley cradles of the Near East, Egypt, South Asia, China and the Americas, with urbanization and writing emerging mainly...