Jericho City (israel, West Bank)
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Aug 26, 2008
Emotions are more important than facts : I could add more facts to the those here underneath : e.g. : Jericho lies more than 800 m below sea level, but is it important ?
The place breathes a strange atmosphere ; you're in the middle of nowhere in an old dusty sleepy town where nothing ever happens and still you know the place is loaded with history events.
The road to it takes you quite some distance through the dessert and than as in a movie you spot an oasis in the distance. When you have a catholic background and read the bible, the place must have been mentioned on quite some occasions. The city looked a bit dusty in the holy year 2000 and a lot of buildings needed an urgent restauration.
Not many places where you could stay. don't know if it has changed a lot.
Facts : An ancient city, now in the Palestinian-administered West Bank of the River Jordan. A well-watered oasis near the Jordan river-crossing at the head of the Dead Sea, it was of strategic importance, located at the junction of the trade routes of antiquity. It was occupied from c. 9000 BC and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Traces of a hunting society that developed into a settled agricultural community have been found. The principal mound, one of the best known of all Near Eastern tells (mounds of rubbish), accumulated over 15 m (50 feet) of deposit, even though the later occupation levels, from 2000 to 500 BC, have been swept off the summit by erosion. The most interesting layers are of the pre-pottery NEOLITHIC period c. 7000 BC, when Jericho was already a walled settlement of some 4 ha (10 acres). Little remains of the late Bronze Age period, the probable date of its destruction by Joshua recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible. Modern Jericho was granted Palestinian self-rule in 1994, as part of the 1993 peace agreement between Israel and the PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION .
( © A Dictionary of World History 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. )
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The place breathes a strange atmosphere ; you're in the middle of nowhere in an old dusty sleepy town where nothing ever happens and still you know the place is loaded with history events.
The road to it takes you quite some distance through the dessert and than as in a movie you spot an oasis in the distance. When you have a catholic background and read the bible, the place must have been mentioned on quite some occasions. The city looked a bit dusty in the holy year 2000 and a lot of buildings needed an urgent restauration.
Not many places where you could stay. don't know if it has changed a lot.
Facts : An ancient city, now in the Palestinian-administered West Bank of the River Jordan. A well-watered oasis near the Jordan river-crossing at the head of the Dead Sea, it was of strategic importance, located at the junction of the trade routes of antiquity. It was occupied from c. 9000 BC and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. Traces of a hunting society that developed into a settled agricultural community have been found. The principal mound, one of the best known of all Near Eastern tells (mounds of rubbish), accumulated over 15 m (50 feet) of deposit, even though the later occupation levels, from 2000 to 500 BC, have been swept off the summit by erosion. The most interesting layers are of the pre-pottery NEOLITHIC period c. 7000 BC, when Jericho was already a walled settlement of some 4 ha (10 acres). Little remains of the late Bronze Age period, the probable date of its destruction by Joshua recorded in the Old Testament of the Bible. Modern Jericho was granted Palestinian self-rule in 1994, as part of the 1993 peace agreement between Israel and the PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION .
( © A Dictionary of World History 2000, originally published by Oxford University Press 2000. )
(This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, Jayzel68 at the wikipedia project. This applies worldwide.
In case this is not legally possible:
Jayzel68 grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose , without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law )
Nov 5, 2009
It's an interesting place...history-charged, impressive, overwhelming...
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