The site

Jericho, in the Jordan Valley of the West Bank, is among the oldest cities on Earth, its Neolithic beginnings reaching back to about 9600 BCE. Archaeologists have unearthed more than twenty successive settlements here, layered atop one another, alongside the remains of an ancient tower and defensive wall. Fed by copious springs, the "city of palm trees" drew human habitation for thousands of years.

Field notes

civilizations

Neolithic

types

City

built

9,600 BCE

occupied

9,600 BCE — 600 BCE

country

Palestinian Territories

elevation

-275 m above sea level