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Jericho Political map of the West Bank showing its boundaries, major cities including Jenin, Tulkarm, Qalqilya, Nablus, Ramallah, Jericho, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron, as well as the Dead Sea to the southeast. The map includes a locator inset highlighting the West Bank's position relative to Israel, Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Egypt.
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Jericho, West Bank: mosaic in the Khirbat al-Mafjar complex A group of visitors walks among the stone ruins and standing columns of Khirbat al-Mafjar, or Hisham's Palace, with desert hills in the background. Excavation of the Tall As-Sulṭān, Jericho Black and white illustration by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld showing Joshua and Israelites blowing trumpets as the walls of Jericho collapse, based on the passage Joshua 6:20 in the Bible.
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Jericho Jericho, West Bank.

Jericho

town, West Bank
Also known as: Arīḥā
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Kathleen Mary Kenyon
Principal, St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford, 1962–73. Director, British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, 1951–66. Author of Archaeology in the Holy Land; Digging Up Jericho; and others.
Kathleen Mary Kenyon
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Jericho, town located in the West Bank. Jericho is one of the earliest continuous settlements in the world, dating perhaps from about 9000 bce. Archaeological excavations have demonstrated Jericho’s lengthy history. The city’s site is of great archaeological importance; it provides evidence of the first development of permanent settlements and thus of the first steps toward civilization. Traces have been found of visits of Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherers, carbon-dated to about 9000 bce, and of a long...

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