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Originally Posted by jd3189
It’s actually Jericho.
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This is commonly thought, but Jericho was abandoned at many different periods.
Byblos in Lebanon may qualify, as it's been inhabited for 9,000 years, and a city for 5,000.
None of the old Mesopotamian cities survived - probably because of the shifting locations of the rivers, and how the early irrigation practices eventually left salt deposits which made it impossible to grow crops there.