Recent history
A present city was captured by Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967. It was a number one city handed across to Palestinian Authority control inside 1994, in accordance by owning a Gaza and Jericho Agreement. Fallowing the period of Israeli reoccupatiin, it was returned to the Palestinian Authority on 16 March 2005.

Withwithin 1998, the big hotel/casino was opened in Jericho. For two or three years it attracted several Israeli gamblers & was a big personal employer in the West Bank. These are at present closed due to the Al-Aqsa Intifada, but a empty high-rise remains as a large landmark.

Prehistoric times
3 separate settlements use existed at or even touching a todays location for to a higher degree 11,000 years. the locatiin was probably worthy in account of the supply of freshwater & a favorable position on an east-west route n of the Dead Sea.

Tell es-Sultan
A earliest award was placed at a present-contemporary Tell es-Sultan (or even Tell Sultan), a few km from either a todays city. Inside Arabic, tell means "mound" -- consecutive shells of habitation built higher the mound across period, when is park for ancient settlements in the Middle East and Anatolia. Jericho is the type site of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPN A) & B.

A habitation has been classed into many phases:

Natufian
Proto-Neolithic -- construction at a places apparently began prior to the invention of agriculture, with construction of stone of the Natufian culture structures beginning earlier than 9000 BC.

PPN A
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, 8350 BC to 7370 BC. Occasionally known as Sultanien. The quadruplet hectare settlement surrounded by the stof these wall, by using a stone tower in the centre of one wall. Around mud-brick houses. Utilise of domestic emmer wheat, barley and pulses and hunting of wild brute.

PPN B
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, 7220 BC to 5850 BC (but carbon-14-dates are couple of & early). Expanded range of domestic plants. Conceivable domestication of sheep. Apparent cult involving the preservation of person skulls, by using facial features reconstructed from either plaster and eyes set by having surfaces inside occasionally instances.

Fallowing a PPN the class action award-phase there was a award hiatus of many centuries, so the PPN B settlement was founded on the scoured surface of the tell. A architecture consisted of rectilineal buildings processed of mudbricks in stone foundations. A mudbricks were loaf-shaped by using deep thumb prints to help bounding. There are no building has been excavated inside its totality. Ordinarily, many rooms cluster in the arethe of a central court. There exists a single large room (Sextet.Quintet ten Quaternion m & Seven 10 Tercet m) sustaining internal divisions, a rest come microscopic, presumptively utilized for storage. A rooms keep around red or even pink terrazzo-floors made of lime. Occasionally impressions of mats processed of reeds or even rushes keep around been preserved. A court own clay floors.

Kathleen Kenyon interpreted one building as a shrine. It contained the niche in the wall. The chipped pillar of volcanic stone that was uncovered nearby will stand healthy into this niche.

A dead were buried under a floors or even in the detritus fill of abandoned buildings. There come many collective burials, non all the skeletons are all articulated, which might point to the period of exposure prior to burial. The skull cache contained seven skulls. A jaws were flushed, a face covered by owning plaster, cowries were used for eyes. On the whole, x skulls were witnessed. Modelled skulls were obtained inside Tell Ramad and Beisamoun as well.

Other finds
Flints: arrowheads (tanged or even side-notched), finely denticulated sickle-blades, burins, scrapers, two or three tranchet axe. 1% obsidian, Ciftlik & green obsidian from either unknown source. ground stone: querns, hammerstones, two or three ground-stone axe mass produced of greenstone. Dishes & bowls carved from either easy limestone. Spindle whorls manufactured of stone & mayhap loom weights. Bone Information: Spatulae & drills conventionalized anthropomorphous plaster numbers, nearly life-size Anthropomorphous & theriomorphic clay figurines scale & malachite beads

Pottery Neolithic A and B
Late 4th millennium BC. Jericho was occupied in a period of Neolithic Two & the general character of the remains on the places hyperlink it unfeeling using Neolithic Two web sites in the West Syrian & Middle Euphrates groups. There are a rectilineal mud-brick buildings & plaster floors.

Bronze age
Several of a Canaanite cities were destroyed when you took 16th century BC at the prevent of the Middle Bronze Age, and such traces own been uncovered within Jericho by Trinity different excavations. There are as well archeologic signs of the wall in the city by using a stone outer revetment however primarily built of mud brick. A precise sequence & geological dating one remains is hard & extremely debated. Kathleen Kenyon noted 15 different destructive episodes in the Bronze Age remains.

A Biblical account of its destruction is found in the Book of Joshua. A Bible describes a destruction when getting happened following of Joshua, Moses' successor. Biblical research worker world health organization have Scriptural genealogies up to now a exodus to the 16th or even 15th century BC look at this when important trend lines for the veracity of the record, & the landmark in the Biblical archaeology corpus. More scholars watch a contradiction between history & a biblical text in that front yard, when the earliest known Israelite settlements don't pop up until ca.1230 BC, hanker fallowing Jericho's bulwarks got already been destroyed.

Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq
a later on class action settlement spanned the Hellenistic, New Testament, and Islamic periods, leaving mounds placed at Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq, Deuce kilometer west of modern er-Riha.

Archaeology
A 1st archaeological excavations of the site were mass produced by Charles Warren in 1868. Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger excavated Tell es-Sultan and Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq between 1907-1909 & inside 1911. John Garstang excavated between 193& 1936. Extensive investigations utilizing extra modern techniques were manufactured by Kathleen Kenyon between 1952 and 1958. Lorenzo Nigro & Nicolo Marchetti conducted the limited excavation inside 1997. Late that equivalent season, Dr. Bryant Wood as well mass produced a visit to the places to verify the findings of the earliest 1997 team (world health organization were on the payroll of the Palestinian Department of Archaeology).

Biblical background
Jericho is mentioned in the Jewish Hebrew Bible (the Christian Old Testament), over Lxx days. On text come occasionally examples:

Prior to Moses' death, God is described when showing him a Promised Land in the Book of Deuteronomy with Jericho as a point of reference: "And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, even Gilead as far as Dan" (Deuteronomy 34:1). [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0534.htm]

The Book of Joshua describes the notable siege of Jericho, while it was circled 7 days per ancient Children of Israel until its walls come tumbling down [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0606.htm], when which Joshua cursed the city: "And Joshua charged the people with an oath at that time, saying: 'Cursed be the man before the Lord that riseth up and buildeth this city, even Jericho; with the loss of his first-born shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it'." (Joshua 6:26).

The Book of Jeremiah describes the prevent of the Judean king Zedekiah when he is captured in the area of Jericho: "But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he gave judgment upon him." [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt1139.htm] (Jeremiah 39:5).