🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Jericho Kenyon Trench Spiral Stair
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jericho Kenyon Trench Spiral Stair in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
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🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jericho Kenyon Trench Spiral Stair in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) · Chalcolithic–Early Bronze
Jericho — Plastered Skull House (Trench III) in West Bank, Jericho, Tell es-Sultan, Palestine is a Chalcolithic to Bronze Age (4500–1200 BCE) tell attribut…
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c. 3500 – 722 BCE) · Canaanite / Hyksos / Israelite–Canaanite / Assyrian
Mountain pass caravan port between Ebal and Gerizim – caravan quay platform 40×20 m and fortress temple.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Iron Age capital to Crusader · Israelite → Assyrian → Herodian
Hilltop capital of Kingdom of Israel after 880 BCE (Omri bought hill from Shemer for 2 talents silver — 1 Kings 16:24) with Israelite palatial ivories (Samaria Ivories, Louvre) and Ostraca warehoused…
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Natufian to Bronze Age (12,000 BCE onward; tower c.8300 BCE) · Natufian → PPNA/PPNB → Canaanite
Tell with Natufian through Bronze Age layers including Pre-Pottery Neolithic A stone tower (c.8300 BCE) and wall – among earliest monumental architecture and fortification. Biblical Jericho.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) · Natufian-PPN
Jericho Pre-Pottery Tower Annex North — Western Terrace in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian-PPN.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600–9400 BCE) · Sultanian PPNA
PPNA Jordan Valley village with 13,000 figs proving earliest arboriculture before cereals.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9500–9000 BCE; Sultanien) · Sultanian PPNA (Levant)
PPNA type-village in lower Jordan Valley with oval pisé houses and wild barley economy.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–600 CE) · Canaanite / Egyptian / Philistine
Tell el-Ajjul — Gaza in Gaza Strip, Palestine is a Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–600 CE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Egyptian / Philistine.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Hydraulic works
Hasmonean to Herodian–Early Roman (100 BCE–70 CE) · Hasmonean / Herodian Judean (Hellenistic–Roman desert court)
20-km Wadi Qelt cliff aqueducts (c.20 BCE) cascading 400 m to irrigate Herod's Jericho oasis palaces and balsam plantations.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) · Natufian-PPN
Jericho Pre-Pottery Tower Annex North — Southern Extension in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian-PPN.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) · Natufian-PPN
Jericho Pre-Pottery Tower Annex North in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian-PPN.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Qumran Cave 4 Scriptorium Bench in Jericho, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Iron Age to Roman (8th c. BCE–68 CE; peak Hasmonaean–Herodian) · Israelite → Hasmonaean/Essene (Yahad) sect (possibly Sadducean debate) → Roman destruction
Essene terrace settlement feeding 11 cliff caves that yielded 972 Dead Sea Scrolls.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Egyptian
Tell el-Far'ah South — Sharuhen? in Negev / Gaza border, Palestine is a Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Philistine / Egyptian.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Fortress
Hasmonean (c. 130 BCE) + Herodian 30 BCE · Hasmonean / Herodian / Byzantine Laura
Hyrcania excavated by Bar Adon and later, Herod's desert asylum per Josephus with tomb possibility.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Middle Bronze to Egyptian New Kingdom (2000–1150 BCE) · Hyksos / Egyptian
Hyksos rampart fortress (15 m thick) besieged 3 years by Ahmose.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) · Canaanite
Khirbet et-Tell Outlier in West Bank, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) tell.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Hydraulic works
Iron Age II (Judahite Kingdom, late 8th c. BCE) · Judahite Israelite (Hezekian Jerusalem)
Biblical 533-m S-tunnel 701 BCE two teams meet with 90 cm offset for Assyrian siege.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) · Natufian-PPN
Jericho Pre-Pottery Tower Annex North — Eastern Outlier in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian-PPN.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Late Hasmonaean to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE Mount — Herodian peak 23 BCE–4 BCE) · Herodian (Judaean client of Rome) → Zealot → Roman → Bar Kokhba → Byzantine monastery
Herod's artificial volcano citadel with 350 m pool-garden and recently discovered royal mausoleum.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
PPNA · PPNA Jordan Valley
Tell es-Sultan Jericho PPNA Tower at Jericho, West Bank, Palestine is a PPNA ancient city of the PPNA Jordan Valley tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for 8 m ppna stone tower 9 m diam with stair.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Neolithic to Iron Age (c.7000–700 BCE; peak Israelite Tirzah 1000–800 BCE) · Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EB → Israelite (Tirzah, capital to 800) → Assyrian
Tell el-Farah (North) in Tirzah valley (likely biblical Tirzah, capital of Northern Israel before Samaria) with Neolithic village (Lodian) through EB, Middle Br...
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
PPNA to Bronze Age (9600–1500 BCE) · Natufian / PPN / Canaanite
Tel es-Sultan Extension — Jericho Spring Fields in Jericho Oasis, Palestine is a PPNA to Bronze Age (9600–1500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian / PPN / Canaanite.
