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Jericho

Shittim

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Jericho

Shittim

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Jericho may be the world's oldest city: it dates back to Neolithic times, to 8000BC.

The site had the main ingredients needed for an important city:

an abundant water supply, good climate and a central location

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The city had a stone revetment

wall at the base of the tel, and

this wall held a high rampart in

place. Above the rampart was a

mud brick wall which was the

outer wall of the city.

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Rahab may have lived in one of these houses on the

sloping rampart between the revetment wall encircling

the bottom of the hill and the city wall above it.

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