New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1930, Page 28

ARIZONA VILLAGE [5 MOST ANCIENT Oraibi Tnhabited Continuously Since at Least 1870 | Washington, D. C., April 11— Oraibi, an Arizona Indian viligss north of Winslow, recently was clared the oldest continuously in- habited community in the United States. This determination was made by Neil M. Judd, leader of National Geographic Society expeditions to Tueblo Bonito who, with Dr. A. X Douglass, determined the major Indian ruins. The chr s worked out efter years of cel- leetion and study of timbers from ruins which recorded their ages by their annuai growth vings when they were trees Inhabited Before Columbus Ca Oraibi was in existence i more than a century L th Spaniards reacaed the mainland of | North America. ! mascus is mentioned in .| probably took place about 525 B. some 5,600 |2 | ued to exist. A par | day occupies its site. The oldest city of Furopean ori gin in the United States is gustine, Florida, founded in ; but there is a much older| city founded by Luropeans in th Western Hemisphert. This is San | Domingo, on the Island of Haiti, which was founded in 1407, | “All of which,” =says a bulletin from the National Geographic S ton, D, C. !u:\(lqmu. he question of what | oldest citi of other con- | s and coun Pirst Cities Built in Mesopotamia | “So far as history and archacol- ogy, tell, the first cities or towns in the world were built by the Sum- ciians in the Tigris-Euphrates v ley perhaps as early as 4,500 B. C. Towns and villages exist today on some of these old sites, but can be poin uously. Damascus, on an easis in Syria lias the general reputation of being | the oldest city in the world, in con- | tinuous existence. The best that can | be d for this claim to priority that no town on any of the confi- uents appears to have a belter. Da- e |ed Athens portant cities to the present day: | Gauesis X1V, 15, as already a town in the days of Abraham, pcrobably 2,000 or more B- “In Africa, a reasonably good case can be made for Cairo as the site of a city or town for mor: than 2,400 years, but it is not cer- tain that small breaks in the ct tinuity did no: occur. On the edg: of Cairo today are the ruins of an cient Heliopolis, founded sori: 000 years before Christ. 1t had a continuous existence until Roman times but fell into ruins before any cther city occupied its site. Babylonian Emigrants Started Cairo “The birth of a cortinuing ecity cn the sits now occupied by Cairo C. when a town called Babylon was founded, presemably by emigrants from Babylon in Mesopotamia. The | + | Romans added to Babylon by build- |ing a fort there and making it the leadquarters of a legion. The town and fort were captured by the Mo- hammedan invaders in 641 A. D. Touching the old site, the victorious Moslems built a new capital, Fostat. Although other near-by cities became in turn the Moslem capitals, El-Fostat probably contin- of 0ld Cairo to- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1930. : e outh America’s oldest existi city of importance is probably Cu:- | co, Peru, which is reputed to have | Leen founded by the Incas about the tenth century A. D. It may,| however, be much older. “Mexico City is believed to be th | tence on the North American mainland. It was founded ord- | ing ABSURDRUMORSIN HAITI ROUSE PEOPLE: Women Traders Chiefly Respon- sible for Wild Stories Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, April 11 (®) —In this land, where politics is |the chief work of many and princi- | pal recreation of many more, the foreigner is astounded with a huge s of wild rumors which float | unceasingly. “If it should turn out that there ere breaks in the existence of a city on the site of Cairo, Alexar- cria, founded in 3 woulid f21l heir to the t 's old- | est city “In Furope Athens has probably cxisted longer than any other city which is today of importance, for apparently a settlement was estab- | |lished there more than 1,000 years | Lefore the Ciristian era. Rome is a close rival, for its beginnings appear to have been about 1,000 B. C. Oth- v Greek communities of ancient importance that may have ant ave not survived as of \.r\ im- and in the life of Byzantium-Con stantinople there were almost sure- ly lapses. 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