what is the oldest city on earth?
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It is generally supposed that Damascus, the chief city of Syria, is the oldest city in the world...
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the oldest medicine is ayruvedha, not siddha. it is practiced by ancient indian saints. it is still praciced in india .
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The oldest known course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh, Scotland. Golf has been played on Musselburgh Links since 1672. Mary Queen of Scots reputedly played there in 1567.\n\nFollow the link for lots more information about golf.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_course#History
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The Guinness Book of World Records currently lists a 12,000 year old California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) named "Eternal God" as the oldest tree on earth. Previously, the "Methuselah" Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) held the record at about 4,700 years.\n\nThe Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) was first identified as a long-lived tree by Dr Edmund Schulman following surveys in California's White Mountains in 1954. The oldest pines grow at elevations above 3,000 metres in arid, rocky areas of the Great Basin that covers the state of Nevada and parts of Utah and California. (This mountainous area of 500,000 square kilometres has no rivers or creeks flowing out of it.) They exist on the tree line in severe conditions, and often appear to be mostly dead, with only part of the trunk having living bark and leaves. This growth strategy is a response to damage from climate and lightning strikes, and allows the tree to exist on limited resources.\n\nThe bristlecones of Wheeler Peak in Nevada were believed to be older than those found in California. In 1964 a geology student called Donald R. Currey came to Wheeler Peak to study ice age glaciers, partly by collecting tree ring data. Using coring tools, he identified trees over 4,000 years old.\n\nWhen his coring tool jammed inside a massive tree, he asked for, and received, permission from the US Forest Service to cut the tree off at 2.4 metres above the ground and keep a horizontal slab for study. When this slab had its rings counted, it turned out to be over 4,844 years old. Later cores taken closer to ground level by dendrochronologist Don Graybill showed it to be 4,862 years old - the oldest living thing ever discovered.\n\nWheeler Peak is now part of the Great Basin National Park, which was created in 1986.\n\nThen a 4,600+ year old bristlecone called "Methuselah" in the White Mountains of California was considered as the oldest tree now living. Some reports have it as 4,789 years old.\n\nWe can say,today,as ref to The Guinness Book of World Records,12,000 year old California redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) named "Eternal God" is the oldest tree on earth!!
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The oldest actively surviving religion is Hinduism...
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From what i understand..that would be the Al-Azhar University, in Cairo, Egypt. It was founded in 358 AH / 969 SD by the Fatimid Caliph Almuiz. Today, the university is known for its studies of Islamic (Muslim) faith in the Arabic language which is the language of the Holy Quran,  and it has a terrific modern scientific fields of science .I have added a site to read more on this university.\n\nThe oldest university in Europe however, is probably University of Bologna which is in Italy and the date is around 1088. There are many universities after this one that were founded...16 actually from Bologna to 1348 in Prague, Czech.
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The Appalachian mountain range is the oldest in the world.\n\nThe birth of the Appalachian ranges, some 480 million years ago.
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2,000 years old is the oldest.
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Oldest Civilisation\nRich Heritage
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The longest street in the world seems to be Yonge Street.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street
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Archean/Archaean Eon (Precambrian Time) 3.8 billion years ago\n\nRocks older than this have been destroyed through plate subduction. The rocks were essentially recycled through melting.\n\nThe oldest rocks on earth are found in northernmost Canada (referred to as the Canadian Shield - have to check on the name; it's been a while) & Greenland.\n\nAustralia, too, has some of the oldest rocks. They also have fossils of one of the oldest lifeforms on earth, stromatolytes.
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the oldest that we can find and have full knowledge of it.is VEDA.\nit is about 7500 years old,with some fascinating transcript of general belief of this religion
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What a ridiculous question!\n\nNo one will know that answer for certain.  \n\nIf you really really really wanted to ballpark a figure, then the first recognized city in human history was the city of Jericho, and it existed around 8,000 BC.  I really don't think they had apartments though!!!\n\nThe City of Ancient Rome had four to five-story buildings with apartments in them, but I do not know if they were the first.
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The Earth is assumed to be about 4.6 billion years old, and unlike what everyone else said, it's not based solely on anything contained on Earth, including carbon dating. The oldest solid material found on Earth is about 4.1 billion years.\n\nThe guess -- and that's all it is, a guess -- is based on the rate of radiological decay of material on Earth and in meteorites found on Earth and around the solar system.\n\nIf you assume that the entire universe is formed from a common pool of matter (the essence of the Big Bang theory is that all material in the universe came from a single, supercondensed source that exploded); if you assume that therefore, all the matter in the universe has been equally distributed in all directions; if you assume that the rates of decay in all radiological material in the universe are consistent regardless of time, their position in the universe, etc.; then you can derive, by comparing the same kind of radiological material from celestial bodies that were not formed in our solar system, bodies that were part of our solar system when it formed, and that material now on Earth, the age that the Earth must be at the time it began to take solid form.\n\nThe paticular materials used to get that age is Lead-206 / Lead-207, which are the products of decay in Uranium-238.\n\nThis is further supported by temperature measurements of the universe and the evidence of background radiation from the timing of the Big Bang, which is assumed to have occurred about 15 billion years ago; given the rate of expansion of the universe visible to us, and the rate of change in both the speed of that expansion, the temperature of the universe and the density of space, we can verify the assumptions of the Earth's age to be within the estimation of a "young Earth" of 4.6 billion years old.\n\nAlso, to the person who said "The Bible": If you derive the history of the Earth from the Bible, as countless theological scholars have done through extensive research, it's about 6,000 years old; no scholarly Biblical research places the age of Earth at more than 10,000 years old.\n\nIf you want to believe that, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that's fine. But you should at least agree with your evidence before citing it.
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the oldest church is in jeursalim i think\nand the oldest mouque is Al-kabaa in mecca
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The oldest dam still in use is in Orontes in Syria, and was built in 1300 BC.\n\n\ntype dam in search query in the link below.
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go to www.amazon.com. they have a listing of the oldest music we're ever heard.