Enough fantasizing about the breathtaking views a place has, or the unique and extreme activities it offers. Enough fantasizing about the city’s food, music, or culture, or its architecture, and art. Sometimes you have to look for non-typical reasons why you should visit a certain place. If you can’t think of one, how about visiting a city because it’s ancient ? Isn’t that fascinating enough? How about visiting a place that’s been around since 9,000B.C.? That is what this list is all about! We’re going to give you a list of cities where you can experience time travel. How about that?
You may find the places on the list uninviting because it’s too populated or too busy for your taste because millions of people still thrive in it. But if you really want to dig a new reason for visiting a place, this might be this – for its ancient-ness.
Here are some of the world’s most ancient cities:
Varanasi India. Earliest Settlement: 1,000B.C.
Cadiz, Spain. Earliest Settlement: 1,100 B.C.
Thebes (Luxor), Egypt. Earliest Settlement 1,400 B.C.
Larnaca, Cyprus. Earliest Settlement: 1,400 B.C.
Athens, Greece. Earliest Settlement: 1,400 B.C.
Balkh, Afghanistan. earliest Settlement: 1,500 B.C. 
Kirkuk, Iraq. Earliest Settlement: 2,200 B.C.
Arbil, Iraq. Earliest Settlement: 2,300 B.C.
Tyre, Lebanon. Earliest Settlement: 2,750 B.C.
Jerusalem, Middle East. Earliest Settlement: 2,800 B.C.
Beirut, Lebanon. Earliest Settlement: 3,000 B.C.
Gaziantep, Turkey. Earliest Settlement: 3,650 B.C.
Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Earliest Settlement: 4,000 B.C. 
Sidon, Lebanon. Earliest Settlement: 4,000B.C.
Faiyum, Egypt. Earliest Settlement: 4,000 B.C.
Susa, Iran. Earliest Settlement: 4,200 B.C.
Damascus, Syria. Earliest Settlement: 4,300 B.C.
Aleppo, Syria. Earliest Settlement: 4,300 B.C.
Bybios, Lebanon. Earliest Settlement: 5,000 B.C.
Jericho, Palestinian Territories. Earliest Settlement: 9,000 B.C.
