Jericho's Tell es-Sultan has belatedly become a World Heritage Site after being proclaimed by UNESCO as the "oldest fortified city in the world". The "tell", or mound, contains evidence of prehistoric human life dating back to the ninth millennium BC. Neolithic (4,300-2,000 BC) and Bronze (2,000-700 BC) Age fortifications, towers, trenches, remains of palaces and of a
Jericho's Tell es-Sultan has belatedly become a World Heritage Site after being proclaimed by UNESCO as the "oldest fortified city in the world". The "tell", or mound, contains evidence of prehistoric human life dating back to the ninth millennium BC. Neolithic (4,300-2,000 BC) and Bronze (2,000-700 BC) Age fortifications, towers, trenches, remains of palaces and of a