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Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE, FBA, FSA (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. [1] She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. [2]
In mid-1950, Jordan formally annexed the West Bank and Jericho residents, like other residents of West Bank localities became Jordanian citizens. [ 97 ] In 1961, the population of Jericho was 10,166, [ 98 ] of whom 935 were Christian, and the rest were Muslim.
Jericho residents also accounted for twenty two cases of cholera during the 1832 epidemic. [5] In the 1950s, Jericho was briefly a red light area, and in the early 1960s there were plans to demolish it and replace it with light industrial units and new housing. However, many people objected and campaigned to save this historic area, rallied by ...
One skull was accidentally unearthed in the 1930s by the archaeologist John Garstang at Jericho in Palestine. A number of plastered skulls from Jericho were discovered by the British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950s and can now be found in the collections of the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum, the Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Royal Ontario Museum, the ...
Jericho in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (4 P) Pages in category "History of Jericho" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The Jericho Conference (Arabic: مؤتمر أريحا) was held in December 1948 to decide the future of the portion of Palestine that was held by Jordan at the end of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, led by Sheikh Muhammad Ali Ja'abari. [1] At this conference, notables from the West Bank called for its annexation to Jordan. [2]
It was therefore a shock when Kathleen Kenyon in the 1950s, using more scientific methods than had been available to Garstang, redated Jericho City IV to 1550 BC and found no signs of any habitation at all for the period around 1400 BC. Wood's 1990 reversion of City IV to Garstang's original 1400 BC therefore attracted considerable attention.
Jericho / d ʒ ɛr ɪ k oʊ / is a ... in the 1950s Phebe Underhill Seaman sold a large piece of her land to real estate developers. This property was developed for ...