Ten Oldest Cities
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Tiburon
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Probably from a well. There's a river below it though it looks like it's not always flowing.
docphin5
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Have you confirmed those dates? Alexandria was built at the orders of Alexander the Great who lived 2,400 years ago so how could the city be 7,900 years old?
inertia
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No confirmation, but another list in the OP displayed different dates of other cities.
Since you asked, I found a paper written in 2013 where the existence of a pre-Alexander settlement located within Alexandria Bay where Pb radioisotopes indicated "the occurrence of human settlements at 2300 - 2650( +/- 200) yrs B.C. and, to a lesser extent, 3500- 3800 ( +/-170) B.C."
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inertia
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About Jericho:
"The site of Jericho rises above the wide plain of the Jordan Valley, its height the result of layer upon layer of human habitation, a formation called a Tell. The earliest visitors to the site who left remains (stone tools) came in the Mesolithic period (around 9000 B.C.E.) but the first settlement at the site, around the Ein as-Sultan spring, dates to the early Neolithic era, and these people, who built homes, grew plants, and kept animals, were among the earliest to do such anywhere in the world. Specifically, in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A levels at Jericho (8500-7000 B.C.E.) archaeologists found remains of a very large settlement of circular homes made with mud brick and topped with domed roofs."
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Open Heart
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Without derailing what is really a good line of questioning, (How do YE creationists explain cities older than 6000 years) I would nevertheless like to point out that not all the ages given in this summary are correct. For example, Suna'a is really only 2500 years old. However it is true about the age of Jericho (about 10,000 BCE)
inertia
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Yes, and the age of ancient cities depends a lot on where the information comes from. You are correct. What's consistent about Sana'a Al-Umma is that it has been inhabited for over ~2,500 years,
According to Britannica:
"Sanaa is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, although an exact date for its establishment is unknown. According to Yemeni legend, it was founded by Shem, one of the three sons of Noah. It occupies the site of the ancient pre-Islamic stronghold of Ghumdān, which may date to the 1st and 2nd century bce. Sanaa was an Arabian centre for Christians and Jews before it was converted to Islam by ʿAlī, fourth caliph and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, in 632 ce."
According to MIT:
"Yemen's earliest excavated village settlements are dated to c. 5000 BC and the first urban settlements on the eastern deserts date from around 1200 BC."
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