Verified31.8717° N · 35.4444° E · -258 m
Jericho – Tell es-Sultan
Ancient Jericho · Ariha
Natufian to Bronze Age (12,000 BCE onward; tower c.8300 BCE)·Natufian → PPNA/PPNB → Canaanite·🇵🇸 West Bank, Jericho Governorate, Palestine
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About Jericho – Tell es-Sultan
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.
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History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 9000 BCE settlement, 8300 BCE tower
- Period
- Natufian to Bronze Age (12,000 BCE onward; tower c.8300 BCE)
- Culture
- Natufian → PPNA/PPNB → Canaanite
- Purpose
- Early farming village and walled town at oasis
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
c. 9000 BCE settlement, 8300 BCE tower
Initial construction
c. 1489 CE
Rediscovery
Location
Where it is
31.8717° N · 35.4444° E · -258 m
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