<< Our Photo Pages >> Jericho - Ancient Village or Settlement in Israel
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Multi-periodSite Name: Jericho Alternative Name: Tell as-SultanCountry: Israel
NOTE: This site is 2.647 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Jericho Nearest Village: Tell as-Sultan
Latitude: 31.850436N Longitude: 35.436129E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Kuba visited on 30th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5
SolarMegalith visited on 6th Apr 2011 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 2.5 Ambience: 3.5 Access: 4.5
There is speculation these were of a spiritual nature, rather than dwellings or fortifications. However archaeologists claim that Jericho is the "oldest city in the world," though there is now competition from the Urfa Culture in southern Turkey. Neverheless, such monumental construction reflects social organization and central authority as well as agricultural surpluses. though there are doubts that the fortification completely date to the 8000 BCE. The wall was built of large Cyclopean stones which supported a mudbrick wall above it. Discovered and excavated by Kathleen Kenyon in her Trench I, the Neolithic tower was built and destroyed in Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, which Kenyon dated to 8000-7000 BCE. The 8m diameter tower stands 8m tall and was connected on the inside of a 4m thick wall. This southern portion of the wall was, however excavated by Lorenzo Nigro and Nicolo Marchetti conducted as well as Dr. Bryant Wood in 1997. The Pre-Pottery dead were buried under the floors or in the rubble fill of abandoned buildings and there was shrine of sorts. There were also unique Clay/Plaster covered skulls which are now in the Amman Museum.
Archeologists found a later mudbrick wall which most likely fell down in about 1400 BCE, before old Testament time as described in Joshua. Other local early cities were destroyed around the same time, leading one to speculate about earthquakes not horns.
Note: Perhaps ancient Jericho saw the first cultivated crops - figs found in 11400 year old house site. See comment.
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