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List of oldest continuously inhabited cities

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Post by jagannathtech »

c54 wrote: post #109
TriNetra wrote: post #106

Indian history hasn't been well researched because of various reasons. However, recent efforts are pushing back continuous settlement dates by multi-thousand of years. For instance: Varanasi is in above wiki link with 1200 BC as inhabited since. However [0] pushes it back to at least 4500 BC. 0: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Varanasi-is... >>> The results that have come from a detailed geo-explorat…

Why hasn’t Indian history been better researched as you say? Curious about this.

The unbridled truth is that marxist communist and socialist thought dominated the Indian establishment - polity, academia, media - close to a century and still is well entrenched. Their portrayal of history is nothing but dark ages then glorious Islamic rule. And the hostile Islamic neighbour controlling many of the politicians like their puppets using many strategies didn't help either. And the religious conversion lobby were unfettered in creating atrocity literature and demonisation of native culture, mostly with help from enormous foreign aid.

All other reasons people give here are mere technicalities.

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Post by dilippkumar »

rusticpenn wrote: post #212
dilippkumar wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If there is a peer-reviewed article, this newspaper article does not link to it. Edit: This article is speculating what might be discovered even before the people doing the research have found something: >... by the time the data collection is over, there would be enough to prove that this date can be pushed back to about 4500BC. sigh Edit 2: For context: The era of the proto-indo-european language family is dated to…

I agree with you on the main points. However, the reasoning behind proto-indo-european language family is weak, as it is not the only language family in India.

Oh I agree! If we assume the proto-zagrosian hypothesis is true and then assume that the munda language family existed in India along with the later dravidian languages or maybe even prior to that - there is no reason to believe that these account for all languages spoken in India around 8000BCE - 4000BCE.

Afaik, it’s still very possible that entire language families that were even older have now gone extinct.

My point was to show how old 4,500BCE was. As you point out, that alone doesn’t rule out a city at Varanasi around 4500BCE.

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Post by Giorgi »

owenversteeg wrote: post #152
Giorgi wrote: post #111

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Yeah, Georgia has way better artifacts than Armenia, for example: Vani, Mtskheta, Kutaisi, etc. For some reason Poti is missing from the list too.

Way better? I spent a week in both Georgia and Armenia recently and although I think the two counties are some of the coolest places I've been I found Armenia to be more interesting. That may have been because I had a local guide in Armenia though. (I like to travel with Couchsurfing as you get to meet and stay with locals, and for whatever reason Georgia is the only country I've visited where I couldn't find a host.…

I would recommend Vardzia (Cave city), Mestia for Svan towers and obviously Tbilisi sulfur baths, as for Kutaisi, go to Sataplia Nature Reserve.
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