![]() Lorenzo Nigro and Nicolò Marchetti conducted excavations in 1997–2000. Extensive investigations using more modern techniques were made by Kathleen Kenyon between 19. Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger excavated Tell es-Sultan and Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq between 19, and in 1911, and John Garstang excavated between 19. The first excavations of the site were made by Charles Warren in 1868. Jericho's Arabic name, ʼArīḥā, means "fragrant" and also has its roots in Canaanite Reaẖ. Jericho's name in Hebrew, Yeriẖo, is generally thought to derive from the Canaanite word rēḥ "fragrant", but other theories hold that it originates in the Canaanite word for " moon" ( Yaraḥ) or the name of the lunar deity Yarikh, for whom the city was an early centre of worship. Jericho is described in the Bible as the "city of palm trees". Copious springs in and around the city have attracted human habitation for thousands of years. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of more than 20 successive settlements in Jericho, the first of which dates back 11,000 years (to 9000 BCE), almost to the very beginning of the Holocene epoch of the Earth's history. Jericho is claimed to be the oldest city in the world, and it is also the city with the oldest known protective wall. įrom the end of the era of Mandatory Palestine, the city was annexed and ruled by Jordan from 1949 to 1967 and, with the rest of the West Bank, has been subject to Israeli occupation since 1967 administrative control was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in 1994. It is the administrative seat of the Jericho Governorate of the State of Palestine and is governed by the Palestinian National Authority as part of Area A. ![]() ![]() It is located in the Jordan Valley, with the Jordan River to the east and Jerusalem to the west. Jericho ( / ˈ dʒ ɛr ɪ k oʊ/ JERR-ik-oh Arabic: أريحا Arīḥā i Hebrew: יְרִיחוֹ Yərīḥō) is a Palestinian city in the West Bank.
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