The Birthplace of Civilization Revealed Jericho's Ancient Secrets.#histo...
Before the pyramids of Giza were carved from stone... before Babylon’s ziggurats rose from the plains... before Sumer was even a whisper in the Mesopotamian dust... There was Jericho.
It sits quietly now, half-swallowed by the earth in the West Bank desert, near the Jordan River. Unassuming. Forgotten by time. But beneath the layers of sand and stone lies a question that challenges everything we know about the birth of civilization:
Was this—the mound of Tell es-Sultan—the first true city on Earth?
For centuries, Jericho was known not for being the first, but for being the fallen. A city whose walls, so the Bible says, collapsed with the sound of trumpets and the faith of warriors. The Book of Joshua tells us that Jericho was the gateway to the Promised Land, a city cursed, conquered, and burned.
That dramatic tale, etched into religious memory, became Jericho’s legacy for thousands of years.
But then came the archaeologists. And what they found was something far older—and far more mysterious—than any Biblical account.
The Jericho of scripture stood around 1400 BCE. But the Jericho unearthed by science? It goes back at least 11,000 years. That’s nearly 5,000 years before the first pyramid stone was laid. Longer ago than the invention of the wheel. Before written language. Before metal. Before kings.
They found traces of people who settled permanently, building homes, farming wheat and barley, storing food, burying their dead, and even constructing monumental architecture. Towering walls. A 28-foot stone tower. In a time when most of humanity was still hunting and gathering, these people were shaping the landscape.
So, what do we call this place? A village? A town? Or… the first city?
The contrast is staggering.
One Jericho is a spiritual battleground—divinely destroyed by faith and fire. The other is a miracle of early human cooperation and survival, fortified not against armies... but perhaps against nature, or fear of the unknown.
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