17 Facts About Jericho

Jericho is claimed to be the oldest city in the world, and it is the city with the oldest known protective wall.

Jericho is described in the Bible as the "city of palm trees".

Jericho is the type site for the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B periods.

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.

Jericho was continually occupied into the Middle Bronze Age; it was destroyed in the Late Bronze Age, after which it no longer served as an urban centre.

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Jericho is a plain surrounded by a kind of mountainous country, which in a way, slopes toward it like a theatre.

The road between Jerusalem and Jericho is the setting for the Parable of the Good Samaritan.

Finally, between Jerusalem and Jericho was laid the scene of his story of the good Samaritan.

Shortly thereafter the built-up area of the town was abandoned and a Byzantine Jericho, Ericha, was built 1600 metres to the east, on which the modern town is centered.

Jericho is referred to by him as one of the principal cities of Jund Filastin.

In 1596 Jericho appeared in the tax registers under the name of Riha, being in the nahiya of Al-Quds in the liwa of Al-Quds.

An Ottoman village list from around 1870 showed that Riha, Jericho, had 36 houses and a population of 105, though the population count included men only.

Jericho came under Jordanian control after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Jericho has been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967 along with the rest of the West Bank.

The limited Palestinian self-rule of Jericho was agreed on in the Gaza–Jericho Agreement of 4 May 1994.

Jericho is located 258 metres below sea level in an oasis in Wadi Qelt in the Jordan Valley, which makes it the lowest city in the world.

Jericho Agro-Industrial Park is a public-private enterprise being developed in the Jericho area.