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Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD, there’s a long list of European cities that stops a lifetime before that.
by egypturnash 7y ago
Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD, there’s a long list of European cities that stops a lifetime before that.
- iso1631 7y agoBy splitting into different regions it masks the difference in numbers and age across the world. A list of "oldest cities" which contains places like Canbera and Detroit, but not places like London and Venice, seems very odd
- m-i-l 7y ago> "Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD" There was a story a couple of weeks ago[0] about pottery dating from around 3600BCE being found at a site in Shoreditch (which was being excavated for the new Amazon HQ), suggesting London may have been inhabited considerably longer than previously thought. [0] https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/largest-group-early-neolithic-pottery-ever-found-london-dated-using-new-technique https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/largest-group-early-neolithic-p... & https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2178-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2178-z
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoThat wouldn't be "London city" that would be "a village which the latter settlement of London expanded to encompass"; which is significantly different. Not longest inhabited areas, but continuously inhabited city.