What is the oldest city in the world? How old can a person actually get? What is the oldest animal and what is the oldest tree? These are questions that are worth knowing and beg for an answer. We have collected some beautiful examples of the world’s oldest. Did you know that the oldest Dutch lighthouse is on Terschelling? It is the Brandaris and the oldest lighthouse in the world is unfortunately in pieces.
Oldest hotel
The oldest hotel in the world is Hoshi Ryokan in Japan. It opened in 717 and has a hundred rooms. The hotel is a family business and the same family has run the property for 46 generations. The hotel is located near hot springs in the Komatsu region. Hotel guests can use the hot water in natural conditions.
Oldest crocodile
The oldest crocodile in the world lives in Crocworld nature park in Scottsburgh, South Africa. The croc named Henry was born in 1900. His 114th birthday was celebrated with cake and balloons. It is said that Henry sometimes hunted people and even caught a person. His reputation is one of child murderer. Henry is named after the crocodile hunter who caught him, Sir Henry.
Oldest turtle
As far as is known, the oldest turtle that ever lived is an animal that lived to be 193 years old. He was born in 1773 and died in 1966. The animal, a species of ray tortoise, had been given a name in the meantime and was called Tu’i Malila . Perhaps he was also 189, because the year of birth is also reported as 1777. At that time, Captain Cook gave him to the Royal family of Tonga.
An almost as old and at least as famous tortoise was the Gal apagos giant tortoise Harriet, which hatched from her egg in 1830 and died in 2006. The animal, captured by Charles Darwin in 1835 during his last voyage on the Beagle, ended up in England . In 1841 Harriet moved with two fellow sufferers to the Australia Botanical Garden in Brisbane. The animal later ended up in the Australia Zoo in Queensland.
Oldest person
The oldest person in the world (in 2014) is Mexican Leandra Becerra Lumbras, even though she is unofficially so. She lost her birth certificate during one of her moves. Leandra is said to have been born on August 31, 1887 and celebrated her 127th birthday in 2014. Japan’s Misao Okawa does have a birth certificate and she is officially the world’s oldest in 2014; she will then be 116. Mrs. Okawa passed away in April 2015.
Oldest tree
The oldest tree in the world is Tjikko. It is no less than 9,550 years old. The tree is about 5 meters high and is located in Fulufjället in Sweden. The tree has experienced many climate changes in all those thousands of years. He was able to live so long because he is a vegetative cloner. The tree trunk may die once every few hundred while the root system survives for thousands of years.
Oldest non-cloned tree
Bristlecone Pines are the oldest trees in the world. They can be found in the White Mountains in California at an altitude of over three thousand meters. The oldest Bristlecone Pine has been given the name Methuselah. In 2014 he is 4,847 years old. The trunk is the oldest non-cloned tree.
Oldest cat
Creme Puff is the cat that has lived the longest. The animal was born in 1967 and died in 2005 in Texas. The cat was 38 years and 3 days old at the time. In 2014, the cat Poppy made the news as the oldest living cat. Poppy was 24 and lived in Bournemouth, England. She celebrated her birthday in May and the animal died in June. Poppy was born in 1990. At the end of her life she was deaf and blind.
Oldest dog
The oldest dog was Max, who lived to be almost 30 years old. Max, a beagle, dachshund and terrier mix, was born on August 9, 1983 and died on May 8, 2013. He lived in Louisiana and was 29 years and 282 days old. On May 15, he was accepted by the Guinness World Records organization as the oldest living dog in the world and he died three days later. If he had lived until August, Max would have been the first dog to reach 30.
Oldest book
The oldest text printed on paper is the Diamond Sutra, printed in 868 AD. The book was hidden for hundreds of years in the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, the Buddhist temple caves on the edge of the Gobi Desert. Monks carved the caves out of the marl rocks in a period from the fourth to the twelfth century. The diamond sutra is about transience and change, that everything is subject to change.
Oldest city
Damascus is certainly one of the oldest existing cities in the world and possibly the oldest city. It is the capital of Syria and the second largest city in the country after Aleppo. Damascus was first mentioned in writings in 1500 BC. but excavations found remains from 2500 BC.
Oldest city, underwater
In 2012, divers from the Institute of Ocean Technology found remains of the oldest city in the Gulf of Khambat. They also saw human remains. The discovery was made about 20 kilometers off the coast of the city of Gujarat. The city has a length of about 9 kilometers and a width of almost five kilometers and is located about forty meters deep in the Gulf. Once upon a time there was a dry valley here. The city is at least 7,500 years old and at most 32,000 years old, making it much older than the ancient Egyptian cities, which are considered among the oldest.
Oldest wine producing country
Georgia is the oldest wine-producing country in Europe. It is also thought to be the oldest wine-producing country in the world. The southern Kakasus region, Kakheti, has fertile valleys where traces of vines as old as 7,000 years have been found. The concept of wine is said to have its origins in the Georgian word gvino . Making and drinking wine has become an inseparable part of Georgian identity. The country has cultivated more than 540 grape varieties in recent centuries and in Georgia you will find more different types of wine than anywhere else in the world.
Oldest mural
In 2007, French archaeologists discovered the oldest mural in the world. In northern Syria, northeast of Aleppo in Djade al-Mughara, they found a wall painting that is at least 11,000 years old. The painting was no larger than two square meters and has the colors red, black and white.
Oldest lighthouse
The oldest lighthouse is Pharos in Alexandria. It is one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. The tower stood on an island off the coast of Alexandria that was also called Pharos. The beacon served until the fourteenth century. Then it was destroyed by an earthquake. Pharos the tower was built in the third century BC. built and served for almost 1500 years. The oldest Dutch lighthouse is the Brandaris van Terschelling. The first version dates from 1323. Since then it has been rebuilt and adapted several times.