The reason for the wall is probably the character of Jericho’s site. A copious spring of fresh water (Elisha’s fountain in the Bible) gushes out of the hillside and makes possible the ...

Ancient Jerico/Tell es-Sultan is located northwest of present-day Jericho in the Jordan Valley in Palestine, the property is an oval-shaped Tell, or mound, that contains the prehistorical deposits of ...

A town to be named “New Jericho” is to be built to the south of Jericho. 900 feet below sea level, according to a statement which appeared in the “Falastin,” the official organ of the Arab ...