The world’s earliest civilisations on one mapThe first signs that allow us to describe a society as a “civilisation” appeared in ancient Mesopotamia around 10,000 years ago — earlier than anywhere else on Earth.A little later, around 7,000 years ago, agriculture began developing in Egypt and… Central America. Yet while we all learn a great deal about Egyptian culture and history at school, the civilisations of ancient America remain almost unknown to many people.In the South American Andes