Found this over at Nag on the Lake yesterday and just loved it – a photo essay done by the Telegraph on the twenty oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. And look – there’s Cádiz at number 19! For more modern pics of Cádiz you can have a look here.
I want to go to Byblos!
Where would you like to go?
The World’s Oldest Cities
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Thebes and Tyre are both attractive to me — Thebes because it is small now, which I like, but has such storied history. Think of the Three Hundred, a crack squadron, each spear-and-shield pair also a pair of lovers, the logic being that no man would turn coward and flee a battle if the person he loved was watching him. Tyre was the home of Jezebel, a nice polytheist woman who had the bad luck to marry into a fundamentalist royal house — trading center of the world. But I think I’d spend most time in Plovdiv, since it’s still a cultural city, though of the three it’s the one I hadn’t heard much about before.
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Wow, Rome seems young in comparison and I went there this year (expensive!) *because* of its history. Although I still think it has some claim.
Got to be Egypt from that list for me – one of the few, sadly, from that list that would be safe to go to at the moment. Or at least safer than Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Byblos looks way cool, and Tyre and Sidon are close enough that you could add them in as day trips. Bakht (from whence Bactrian camels) on the old Silk Road could be interesting too. Like Orcus, I’ve always wanted to go to Egypt and… and… and…
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