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Dated at around 9,500BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the first cities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.

Palaeoecological data revealed heterogeneous landscapes in the inland northern meseta with environments that offered diverse sources of wood for the inhabitants of Pintia, one of the first cities of inland Iberia.

You go to Babylon, one of the first cities of civilization, and in front of it you have American soldiers with the most high-tech things — lasers, night-vision goggles, these anti-mine tanks that look like fossils.

His first "Cities of Love" film, which appeared stateside two years ago, was composed of 18 five-minute vignettes linked by moody connective tissue and also featured starry names both in front of and behind the camera.

Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.

Nostalgia for an imagined past or a perfect landscape has driven consumption, and tinged it with a deep sense of morality for a long time, perhaps since the very first cities of the late bronze age.

It made itself the first City of Sanctuary in Britain.

Manchester was the first city of the industrial revolution, the wonder of the age.

In 2010 Unesco designated Chengdu the first City of Gastronomy in Asia, ahead of Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Still, almost singlehandedly, he revived Chicago's reputation as the first city of American architecture.

"Manchester is the first city of the modern age," Nick Johnson, the chairman of a company called Marketing Manchester, said.