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21.08.2025 - 14:56 [ curiosmos.com ]

The 25 oldest cities in the world and what they reveal about our ancient past

(Updated on May 2, 2025)

25. Gaza, Palestine

Gaza has been an urban center for over 5,000 years. It served the Egyptians, the Philistines, the Romans, and the Byzantines. Though often associated with modern conflict, its ancient past is just as complex—and just as important.

What these cities reveal

The oldest cities in the world don’t just tell us where we come from. They tell us how we lived before writing, before kings, before nations. They show us how humans built, adapted, and rebuilt again. These weren’t just places on maps—they were stories in stone, etched by time, buried and rediscovered.

Some of these cities never stopped living. Others vanished and had to be unearthed. All of them remind us that civilization didn’t begin suddenly. It rose slowly, in many places at once. And it still speaks, if we know where to listen.

08.11.2024 - 21:44 [ ARTNews.com ]

UNESCO Calls Emergency Session for Lebanese Heritage Sites Imperiled by Israeli Bombing

UNESCO’s Special Committee for the Protection of Cultural Property will hold an emergency session on November 18 dedicated to heritage sites in Lebanon as Israel intensifies its bombing of Baalbek, a historic city in eastern Lebanon home to one of the world’s best-preserved Roman ruins.

17.10.2023 - 17:37 [ EmekShaveh.org ]

Emek Shaveh: About Us

Emek Shaveh is an Israeli NGO working to defend cultural heritage rights and to protect ancient sites as public assets that belong to members of all communities, faiths and peoples. We object to the fact that the ruins of the past have become a political tool in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and work to challenge those who use archaeological sites to dispossess disenfranchised communities. We view heritage site as resources for building bridges and strengthening bonds between peoples and cultures and believe that archaeological sites cannot constitute proof of precedence or ownership by any one nation, ethnic group or religion over a given place.

17.10.2023 - 17:16 [ Ir-Amim.org ]

About Ir Amim

Ir Amim (“City of Nations” or “City of Peoples”) focuses on Jerusalem within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The mission of Ir Amim is to render Jerusalem a more equitable and sustainable city for the Israelis and Palestinians who share it and to help secure a negotiated resolution on the city through sustained monitoring, reporting, public and legal advocacy, public education and outreach to re-orient the public discourse on Jerusalem.

Ir Amim envisions a city that ensures the dignity and welfare of all its residents and safeguards their holy places, historical and cultural heritages – today, as well as in the future. Ir Amim aspires to a sustainable political future for Jerusalem as the shared capital of two sovereign states – achievable only through a negotiated Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Ir Amim was founded in 2000, and became active as a non-profit organization in 2004.

22.01.2020 - 04:11 [ junge Welt ]

Zurück nach Hause

Der rund 30 Tonnen schwere Findling war 1998 aus der Gran Sabana im Südosten Venezuelas abtransportiert und im Berliner Tiergarten aufgestellt worden.

07.01.2020 - 17:13 [ Presstv.com ]

Iran FM vows proportionate response to US terror act after assassination of General Soleimani

Elsewhere in his interview, Zarif responded to a question if it was worth speaking to Trump and said, „It doesn‘t need speaking. He has to realize that he has been fed misinformation. And he needs to wake up, and apologize. He has to apologize, he has to change course.“

07.01.2020 - 15:13 [ Washington Post ]

The president didn’t threaten just Iran’s culture sites. He threatened culture.

Will my country lay waste to the great mosques and bridges of Isfahan and the remains of Persepolis? Will we destroy the last stones of the Achaemenid and Sasanian empires? If we are to be a barbarian nation, what are our new limits? Do we have any?

07.01.2020 - 14:49 [ CNN ]

Iranian foreign minister: Trump prepared to commit war crimes

Iran‘s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says President Donald Trump doesn‘t care about international law and is prepared to commit war crimes by threatening to destroy Iran‘s cultural sites.

07.01.2020 - 09:05 [ UN.org ]

UN cultural agency chief meets with Iran ambassador amid current tensions

UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay and Iranian Ambassador to the UN agency, Ahmad Jalali, met in Paris against a background of mounting threats between his country and the United States.

07.01.2020 - 06:29 [ MSNBC ]

Rep. Khanna: Article of impeachment ‚on the table‘ after Iran strike

Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) joins Hallie Jackson to discuss an upcoming war powers resolution in the House to prevent President Trump from escalating the conflict with Iran. Khanna describes any further action by the President that is not sanctioned by Congress as a „potentially impeachable offense.“

07.01.2020 - 06:03 [ International Committee of the Red Cross ]

Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict. The Hague, 14 May 1954.

Recognizing that cultural property has suffered grave damage during recent armed conflicts and that, by reason of the developments in the technique of warfare, it is in increasing danger of destruction;
Being convinced that damage to cultural property belonging to any people whatsoever means damage to the cultural heritage of all mankind, since each people makes its contribution to the culture of the world;
Considering that the preservation of the cultural heritage is of great importance for all peoples of the world and that it is important that this heritage should receive international protection;
Guided by the principles concerning the protection of cultural property during armed conflict, as established in the Conventions of The Hague of 1899 and of 1907 and in the Washington Pact of 15 April 1935;
Being of the opinion that such protection cannot be effective unless both national and international measures have been taken to organize it in time of peace;
Being determined to take all possible steps to protect cultural property;
Have agreed upon the following provisions:

07.01.2020 - 05:46 [ CNN ]

Esper contradicts Trump on targeting Iranian cultural sites: We ‚follow the laws of armed conflict‘

„Nothing rallies people like the deliberate destruction of beloved cultural sites. Whether ISIS‘s destruction of religious monuments or the burning of the Leuven Library in WWI, history shows targeting locations giving civilization meaning is not only immoral but self-defeating,“ one of the officials told CNN.

„The Persian people hold a deeply influential and beautiful history of poetry, logic, art and science. Iran‘s leaders do not live up to that history. But America would be better served by leaders who embrace Persian culture, not threaten to destroy it,“ they added.

07.01.2020 - 05:40 [ New York Times ]

Pentagon Rules Out Striking Iranian Cultural Sites, Contradicting Trump

The defense secretary acknowledged that “the laws of armed conflict” prohibited attacking antiquities and said the military had no plans to do so, even though the president declared them targets.

13.11.2019 - 15:41 [ Ansa.it ]

Venice on its knees as floods devastate city

„We are faced with total, apocalyptic devastation,“ Veneto Governor Luca Zaia told Mediaset television.
„I‘m not exaggerating; 80% of the city is under water, the damage is unimaginable“. Premier Giuseppe Conte is due to arrive in the city to assess the situation on Wednesday and Zaia said he would stay the night. I

13.11.2019 - 15:37 [ ORF.at ]

Hochwasser: „Apokalyptische Zerstörung“ in Venedig

Weite Teile der Stadt sind unter Wasser, darunter auch die weltberühmte Basilika auf dem Markusplatz. Wie der Präsident der Region, Luca Zaia, am Mittwoch mitteilte, seien von dem Hochwasser nicht nur 80 Prozent der Stadt betroffen – es habe auch eine „totale, apokalyptische Zerstörung“ hinterlassen.

06.07.2019 - 23:34 [ UNESCO ]

Seven more cultural sites added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List

During its meeting in Baku this afternoon, the World Heritage Committee, inscribed seven cultural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The sites added this afternoon are located in Canada, Czechia, Germany, Republic of Korea, Myanmar and Poland. Inscriptions will continue tomorrow, 7 July.

17.04.2019 - 12:03 [ teleSUR ]

5 Other Historic Sites Lost or Damaged in the Last Decade

While many are mourning the partial destruction of this monument, this article highlights times during the last decade when multiple other equally important historical and cultural sites have also been lost or damaged due to wars, negligence or mere foolishness by human actions.

16.04.2019 - 15:56 [ David Nicholson-Cole ‏/ Twitter ]

#NotreDameCathedral please please can we have a SPRINKLER systems in the roof of Westminster abbey and Salisbury cathedral and more!

16.04.2019 - 15:54 [ Sam Harris / Twitter ]

The Palace of Westminster is a world heritage site and water literally poured through the roof of the Commons the other week. Buildings like this & Notre Dame are part of our human story – we have a duty to save them.

28.11.2018 - 23:17 [ Trend.az ]

Dede Gorgud‘s heritage included in UNESCO list

The „Dede Gorgud‘s heritage: a file on culture, folk legends and music” by Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkey was included in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the 13th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, held in Port Louis, Mauritius, according to a joint statement of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.