Biblical city
Jericho
Jericho, West Bank · Jordan Valley
One of the oldest continuously occupied settlements known, Jericho guarded the approach from the Jordan Valley into Canaan and fell to Israel under Joshua (Joshua 6). It reappears in the Gospels in the accounts of Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus. Tell es-Sultan preserves the ancient mound.
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