Author Thomas Hardy used Jericho as a setting, calling it Beersheba, in Jude the Obscure, and now the suburb has a pub of the same name. R D Blackmore called it a "dangerously hospitable" place ...

Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, led by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950s, revealed significant archaeological findings, including the Tower of Jericho.

The City of Jericho features quite prominently in the Bible: In the Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy, Jericho is mentioned multiple times as the place adjacent to the Jews’ last stop in the ...

The palm trees that line the roads in this desert city near the Dead Sea have been famous for millennia: “The plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees,” as written in Deuteronomy ...

Jericho's biblical significance arises from the Book of Joshua, which tells the story of how Israel conquered the city. Israeli lawmaker Dan Illouz objected to the move ahead of the vote this weekend.

It is around 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the remains of the first city of Jericho, which contains ruins of importance to Jewish history, including a synagogue dating back to the first century B.C.

A new book documents the rich life of Oxford's Jericho through stories, images, ... Postcards from the City of Dreaming Spires. Published. 23 July 2022. Related internet links. My Jericho.

The palm trees that line the roads in this desert city near the Dead Sea have been famous for millennia: “The plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees,” as written in Deuteronomy ...