Jericho the world's first city

Jericho is very cool as it is one of the earliest continuous settlements in the world, dating perhaps from about 9000 BC. and it provides evidence of the first development of permanent settlements and thus of the first steps toward civilization. In the hills above the site you can see caves where Mesolithic hunters lived. By about 8000 BCE the inhabitants had grown into an organized community with a stone wall around the settlement. The size of this settlement justifies the use of the term town and suggests a population of some 2,000–3,000 persons. Thus, this 1,000 years had seen movement from a hunting way of life to full settlement. The development of agriculture can be inferred from this, and grains of cultivated types of wheat and barley have been found. Jericho is thus one of the places providing evidence of very early agriculture.
I was able to see the digs of the old walls and foundations.Read more