By the 9th to 8th millennium BC, Neolithic Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan was already a sizeable permanent settlement, as expressed by surviving monumental architectural attributes such as a wall with ...

was completing the excavation of Jericho’s first city wall. She believes it was built at least 3,500 years before Joshua and the children of Israel came trumpeting out of the wilderness.

Situated in the heart of the Judean desert, with more than 11,000 years of history, Jericho stands as an exceptional place in the history of humanity. The ancient city ... a stone wall 3.5 meters ...

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