Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Old Jericho

Jericho is believed to be one of the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world.
It's mentioned over 70 times in the old Testament.

Each time it was conquered it was leveled and built on top of. Archeologists have uncovered over 20 levels of settlements there.

Some of the layers uncovered by archaeologists.

1 comment:

meggan said...

What I love about this blog is that it's simultaneously delightfully amusing and intellectually edifying. Like PBS.