If someone asked you what the oldest city in the world was, you might give a lot of different answers. Your first guess might be Athens or Rome, or maybe somewhere in ancient Egypt. All great guesses, but when it comes to age, none of them hold a candle to the 9000-year-old settlement recently found just outside the town of Motza, Israel, a quick five-mile drive from the capital city of Jerusalem.
Our journey of discovery begins, as all the best ones do, with a highway in the desert. Workers from Israels National Transport Infrastructure Company discovered the site while excavating the network of tunnels that would connect the new road to a nearby highway. Little did anyone realize, theyd nearly paved over one of the most significant archaeological finds of this decade Date: 2022-04-19
