12 oldest continuously inhabited cities
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Varanasi, India
According to Hindu legend, Varanasi is more than 5,000 years old and is considered the oldest city in the world, though evidence of habitation only goes back about 3,000 years. This more modest date indicates Varanasi is among many ancient cities to appear around the first millennium B.C., and it is still the oldest city in India and is considered the holiest city in the world to Hindus. Its location on the banks of the sacred Ganges River also contributes to its prestige as an important site of pilgrimage.
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i would add hameda_iran shiraz_iran &iranshahr_iran
Uhmm. I would have thought that Ethiopia and Kenya and Egypt would contain such places. In contrast, I am surprise any European cities made the list. In fact, as the birth place of modern humanity, I would have expected all such places to exist in Africa, dispite its current and longstanding sociopolitical inferno (the place is just too rich).
Jerusalem is NOT Israel, the old city you mention here is occupied territory as per the UN.
And Sanaa, Yemen?
I would add Lahore , Pakistan to that list and recent and ongoing excavations at Peshewar , Pakistan also seem to indicate that it is perhaps even older than Lahore
What about New York? LOL.
What about Sri Lanka? Ram Setu is dated at 1,750,000 years. (http://www.hottnez.com/adams-bridge-1750000-year-old-man-made-bridge-bet...). My hunch is that cities there would prove to be very very old.
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