I live in a house that is over 100 years old. That's pretty old by US standards, but can you imagine living in a city that is 12,000 years old? That would be Damascus, Syria, with a population of four million people. Web Urbanist has a list of the ten oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. Link
I live in a house that is over 100 years old. That's pretty old by US standards, but can you imagine living in a city that is 12,000 years old? That would be Damascus, Syria, with a population of four million people. Web Urbanist has a list of the ten oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. Link
Where I live, the oldest cities go back some 3.000 years max.
12.000 years ago around these parts half of my country was still covered with an icelayer and the other half was tundra where stone-age tribes roamed...
I grew up in a house that was built in 1900. In that part of the country, that's an oldish house. But it always used to fascinate me to go to the cemetery and see stones dating back to the 1870s. Again, this was Texas, so that's old. But you can drive all day and still be in Texas. :)
Kind of surprise to see one from North America and none from China on the list, the former because it would be difficult for us to determine whether it was continuously occupied, the latter, because I thought there were older cities than Athens there.