city

Jericho

Modern Tell es-Sultan, near modern Jericho, West Bank
Coordinates 31.8710, 35.4440

The first Canaanite city to fall, with walls that collapsed at the sound of trumpets. One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth; Kathleen Kenyon's excavations dated levels going back to the 8th millennium BC. Jesus later healed blind Bartimaeus here and called Zacchaeus down from the sycamore.

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