Did a little bit of reading on the citadel, and have learned that there is a partially excavated Bronze Age temple of Hadad there, so Aleppo has seen the flourishing of the Amorites, the rise and fall of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires, both old and new, and the Hittites, the collapse of the Bronze Age, the Achaemenids, the Seleucids, and the Romans, three thousand years of history before the Battle of the Yarmuk, the Ayyubids and the Crusaders, the Mongols under Timur, the Ottomans. It has seen a lot in its long life! I wonder how many other cities have been continuously inhabited for as long as Aleppo.
Damascus. Also Byblos (Lebanon) and Jericho (Palestinian Territories) but at a much smaller scale. Aleppo and Damascus are the oldest, continuously inhabited large cities in the world.
Did a little bit of reading on the citadel, and have learned that there is a partially excavated Bronze Age temple of Hadad there, so Aleppo has seen the flourishing of the Amorites, the rise and fall of the Assyrian and Babylonian empires, both old and new, and the Hittites, the collapse of the Bronze Age, the Achaemenids, the Seleucids, and the Romans, three thousand years of history before the Battle of the Yarmuk, the Ayyubids and the Crusaders, the Mongols under Timur, the Ottomans. It has seen a lot in its long life! I wonder how many other cities have been continuously inhabited for as long as Aleppo.
Damascus. Also Byblos (Lebanon) and Jericho (Palestinian Territories) but at a much smaller scale. Aleppo and Damascus are the oldest, continuously inhabited large cities in the world.