What is the oldest known civilizaton?
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Ref: http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0847193.html
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yes, panks7077 I agree that there will be many discoveries to come, Opher is correct that I am really interested in what we have proof for so far, I am also interested in what you feel might be discovered in the future. Like you, I find it hard to believe that civilized man only began 5000 years ago when humans have been around for much much longer, by civilized I mean an organized city with some form of government that is not nomadic. I learned many years ago in school about sumeria, but I was wondering if anyone had heard of any more recent archaeological discoveries predating sumeria. I heard something about an underwater city perhaps on an ancient river bead in the bay of cambay in India dating something like 9000 years ago, but that was in 2000 and they hadn't actually gone down below the surface to further investigate, I think they just used sonar.
Lacking proof, what you "feel" is not sufficient basis to assert what you're asserting. The question was "what is the oldest KNOWN civilization?" (my emphasis) and unless you can cite evidence for a particular civilization, it is not KNOWN.
It is unscientific to search the oldest civilization using the available contemporary information , because the evidences of the oldest civilization would have either disappeared or deeply buried. There could have been more civilized worlds in the past and could have disappeared in the time run. Most of the western anthropologists disagree with the concept of Dravidian civilization as the oldest simply because they lack scientific evidence.
One can perhaps argue as to whether or not factmonster is an authoritative source, but saying it is "unscientific to search the oldest civilization using the available contemporary information" is self-contradictory. The only scientifically valid way to answer the question is to provide currently known information. There may have been older civilizations than any we currently know, but since we don't know any such, it would be unscientific to conjecture their existence lacking any evidence.