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  2. Jericho - Wikipedia

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    Jericho's name in Modern Hebrew, Yeriẖo, is generally thought to derive from the Canaanite word rēḥ ' fragrant ', but other theories hold that it originates in the Canaanite word Yaraḥ ' moon ' or the name of the lunar deity Yarikh, for whom the city was an early centre of worship.

  3. List of oldest continuously inhabited cities - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] [14] The current Gao built on a site near Gao-Saney was the capital of the largest contiguous land Empire of Songhai (1464-1591, [15] destroyed during the invasion of Songhai by the Saadians it is today the regional capital of the Gao regions in Mali. Benin City: Kingdom of Benin Nigeria: c. 1000 AD City of Benin, the oldest city in ...

  4. UNESCO designates ancient Jericho ruins as World Heritage ...

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    In 2010, Jericho celebrated being the oldest walled city in the world, dating back to the modern Stone Age. CNN’s Kareem Khadder and Richard Greene reported from Jerusalem. Eyad Kourdi wrote in ...

  5. Tell es-Sultan - Wikipedia

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    The Tower of Jericho is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) stone structure, built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BCE. [16] It is among the earliest stone monuments of mankind. [ 43 ] Conical in shape, the tower is almost 9 metres (30 ft) in diameter at the base, decreasing to 7 metres (23 ft) at the top, with walls approximately 1.5 ...

  6. Tower of Jericho - Wikipedia

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    The Tower of Jericho (Arabic: برج أريحا) is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) stone structure built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BC. [1] It is part of Tell es-Sultan , a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the State of Palestine , in the city of Jericho , consisting of the remains of the oldest fortified city in the world.

  7. Judea - Wikipedia

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    Most of the people living in the northern portion of Judea in the late 16th century were Muslims; some of them resided in towns that today have significant Christian populations. According to the 1596–1597 Ottoman census, Birzeit and Jifna , for instance, were wholly Muslim villages, while Taybeh had 63 Muslim families and 23 Christian families.

  8. Places where modern day cannibalism still exists - AOL

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    Cannibalism also exists today in some African militias. Joshua Milton Blahyi, or General Butt Naked as he was once known, was a former warlord in Liberia during the mid '90s.

  9. The 43 Best Horror Shows of All Time - AOL

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    A woman realizes the floor of a department store she visited doesn’t actually exist. With award-winning writers and famed guest stars, shows like Black Mirror and Goosebumps have The Twilight ...