Why was jericho destroyed

In , it had a population of 20, From the end of the era of Mandatory Palestine , the city was annexed and ruled by Jordan from to and, with the rest of the West Bank, has been subject to Israeli occupation since ; administrative control was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in Jericho is among the oldest cities in the world , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and it is also the city with the oldest known defensive wall.

The first excavations of the site were carried out by Charles Warren in The earliest excavated settlement was located at the present-day Tell es-Sultan or Sultan's Hill , a couple of kilometers from the current city. In both Arabic and Hebrew, tell means "mound" — consecutive layers of habitation built up a mound over time, as is common for ancient settlements in the Middle East and Anatolia.

Epipaleolithic construction at the site appears to predate the invention of agriculture , with the construction of Natufian culture structures beginning earlier than BCE, the beginning of the Holocene epoch in geologic history. Jericho has evidence of settlement dating back to 10, BCE. During the Younger Dryas period of cold and drought, permanent habitation of any one location was impossible.

However, the Ein es-Sultan spring at what would become Jericho was a popular camping ground for Natufian hunter-gatherer groups, who left a scattering of crescent-shaped microlith tools behind them. The first permanent settlement on the site of Jericho developed near the Ein es-Sultan spring between 9, and BCE. Its cultures lacked pottery, but featured the following: [ citation needed ].

Jericho in islam

At Jericho, circular dwellings were built of clay and straw bricks left to dry in the sun, which were plastered together with a mud mortar. Each house measured about 5 metres 16 ft across, and was roofed with mud-smeared brush. Hearths were located within and outside the homes. The Pre-Sultan c.