What is the longest living civilization?

Originally posted by bbaker642     The oldest civilization with a practiced form of worship is not Hinduism. Hinduism is a European term applied in the 18th century to explain the complexity of the various systems of belief in India. Because there are som many. I believe the Dravidians(Dravidianism) is the oldest. Hinduism and even the Abrahamic religions are rooted in one way or another as well as all other major philosophies. Christianity,Islam etc. Try researching "The Vedas" and find out how mix Christianity and Sanatana Dharma(Hinduism) is.

Originally posted by Jeru Originally posted by BigL They did....? Well their language is very common to the ancient one,almost all greeks can read and understand the ancient greek writings,they still have the olympic games,they have theatres,they have lots of ancient traditions like the "Kaberia Mysteria",they have democracy,etc.

Longest living civilization of the world is Turks. They were the ones who crossed the frozen bridge to North America 20.000 years ago. Some scholars also claim that the Turkish language is the oldest language of the world.

Egypt is the oldest state. It has preserved its statehood, either as an independent state or as an province within an empire, since 3100 BC. Continously.

Hi all i have read all interesting discussions. without any bais and with available evidence i can say that in india there was a civilzation which is older than indus(harappa)civiliztion.Few years back archeologists accidently discoverd a lost city under sea which is dated be 9000years old based on carbon dating. more story on bbc site.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1768109.stm

Someone mentioned zorastarism to be oldest religion,but its not true bcos Avesta(collection of sacred hymns) was written during about 1000 bce by zoraster himself and later hymns were added during 650BCE to 650 CE. vedic texts (sacred hindu books) is much older than this about 1700BCE to 1100 BCE. I was amazed to discover that avestan hymns are excaly the same as sanskrit hymns of rigveda ,one can match word to word, though they used different scripts. Zorastarism and hinduism have similiar gods.some one mentioned about dravidian culture..even today the Shiva of harappa culture is worshiped in india
http://iranianlanguages.com/avesta_overview.htm




    
    
    

Edited by induscivilztion - 27-Sep-2006 at 03:54

Originally posted by Vivek Sharma We are talking about the longest living civilzation not the state.

I know, but this is at least a bullet proof fact, while the other question always rests to a large amount on interpretation.

Originally posted by Celestial Longest living civilization of the world is Turks. They were the ones who crossed the frozen bridge to North America 20.000 years ago. Some scholars also claim that the Turkish language is the oldest language of the world.

i agree

"Egypt is the oldest state. It has preserved its statehood, either as an independent state or as an province within an empire, since 3100 BC. Continously. "

Turks originate from the Altay region.

Edited by Bulldog - 01-Oct-2006 at 09:44

Originally posted by omergun [QUOTE=warhead73][QUOTE=omergun] [QUOTE=Celestial]Longest living civilization of the world is Turks. They were the ones who crossed the frozen bridge to North America 20.000 years ago. Some scholars also claim that the Turkish language is the oldest language of the world. i agree   I disagree,in fact turkish people are mixed of Selguke and Mongol-Tatar as of some scholars claim and the language is new by Ataturk.

Do you know anything about T�rks? If you dont, please dont make such comments. Please dont take the T�rkish history in your mouth, oh please.
The Sel�uk Empire is a T�rkish Empire, Sel�uks arent a different nation. The Sel�uk Empire is one of the biggest T�rk-Islam Empire. How could the same nation mix with the same nation, so pls dont talk nonsense? If we come to the second statement. Firstly it is not Mongol-Tatar, it is Tatar. This is a mix of T�rks and Mongols. T�rks were always the same from the beginning of history, every nation has mixes, so please dont talk nonsense.
Your third statement about the language. Are you trying to make people angry, or is your capacity? T�rkish language never changed. What Atat�rk did was change the alphabet of the T�rkish language from Arab alphabet to Latin alphabet.


Edited by warhead73 - 01-Oct-2006 at 20:34