Is the Indus valley civilization the oldest civilization of the world?

Question

If not, which is the oldest civilization of the world?

Answer 1

No. For instance, there was a civilization in southeastern Europe in the sixth millennium BC (6000-5000 BC) and even further back.

Answer 2

the indus valley civilization is not the oldest in the world. The oldest civilization is mesopotamia, between the tigris and euphrates rivers in present day Iraq. it was started probably around 5000+ BC. the indus civil. was started in 3300 BC.

Answer 3

The oldest civilaztion in the world is between the Tigrus and Euphrates rivers; namely, Babylon. That is modern day Bagdad, Iraq

Answer 4

I believe it would have to be in the middle east. Probably the area within Iraq, Turkey and parts of Iran. also known as  Mesopotamia. The original people were Sumerians near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. officially is believed to have begun around 4000-3500 BC.

China is one of the world's oldest civilizations and one of the oldest continuous civilizations.

Answer 5

No, the first civilization was in Mesopotamia. The Indus Valley Civilization came later.

Answer 6

The Indus valley civilization is one of the oldest, but not the oldest in the world.  That distinction goes to Mesopotamia, specifically the Sumerian civilization.  Sumer predates Babylon and Egypt by about 1000 years.  The Indus valley came on its own about 1500 years after.

Answer 7

It depends on how you define civilization...

Loosely, it means "city". The oldest continuous culture (15,000 years old) are the African Bushmen tribes, of which 87,000 are still alive!

Australian Aboriginals walked and rafted to New Guinea and Australia 50,000 years ago, and they had to have come through the Indus River Valley, because they are genetically identical to Eastern Africans...The problem is that there is no evidence left!

However, if Homo Sapiens left the East Coast of Africa 75,000 years ago, they would have also had to travel through Mesopotamia first, which they did, but I've read that climatic conditions did not permit northward travel until 40,000 years ago, which is when Mesopotamia was fully penetrated, all the way to the Black Sea (which was a freshwater lake until 7,000 years ago). This is how and when Cro-Magnon entered Europe (40,000 BP)...

Then there are Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis (99.9% genetically identical to Modern Man). They ruled Europe for appx. 200,000 years. They could also be considered a civilization...