VISITING TEL-JERICHO or TEL ES-SULTAN-'The Oldest Continuously Inhabited City in the World'. Site for the famous 'Battle of Jericho', where its walls fell under Joshua's Israelite army after they marched around the city blowing trumpets (Joshua 6:1-27).

Modern archaeological excavations in Jericho go back to the end of 19th century; began with the arrival of Charles Warren in 1868, followed by an Austro-German expedition team under the direction of E. Sellin and C. Watzinger (1907 and 1909) and the one directed by G. Garstang (1930 and 1936). However, it was the ground-breaking excavations of British archeologist, Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon who arrived Tel es-Sultan (Ancient Jeicho) in 1951, stunned the world with the discovery of the earliest human habitation dating back to 9000 BC! Her results were published in five volumes.

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