CITIES INHABITED SINCE ANTIQUITY
There are 170 cities, currently inhabited, that were founded before the start of the common era [CE].
Most of them are near the Mediterranean Sea.
oldest continuously-inhabited cities
Larissa [Greece]: 6000 BCE
Argos [Mycenaean Greece]: 5000 BCE
Athens [Mycenaean Greece]: 5000 BCE
Taxila [Pakistan]: 3360 BCE
Byblos [Lebanon]: 3000 BCE
Beirut [Lebanon]: 3000 BCE
Arrapha [Iraq]: 3000 BCE
Tyre [Lebanon]: 2750 BCE
Shedet [Egypt]: 2686 BCE
Jenin [Palestine]: 2450 BCE
Erbil [Iraq]: 2300 BCE