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Jericho is the co-founder of The Race, which was a regular fundraising livestream event, helping the charity program of the Call of Duty Endowment foundation. [ 5 ] Jericho and fellow streamer Tom Cassell (Syndicate) are the creators of the Minecraft multiplayer series titled Mianite, which was released in May 2014. [ 6 ]
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.
The Fall of Jericho, as described in the biblical Book of Joshua, was the first military engagement fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest of Canaan. According to Joshua 6:1–27 , the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, with the ...
Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. 1144 A.D. One of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States, Acoma Pueblo rests on a 365-foot mesa about 60 miles west of Albuquerque.
A benefit concert will take place at the Intuit Dome on Jan. 30 with the purpose of rebuilding the communities devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires. FireAid is described as an “evening of ...
Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning they are the oldest ...
After the destruction of Jericho and Ai, the Hivite people of Gibeon sent ambassadors to trick Joshua and the Israelites into making a treaty with them. According to the writer of the book of Deuteronomy (Deut 7:1–2; 20:16–20), the Israelites were commanded to destroy all non-Israelite Canaanites in the land.
It is located adjacent to the Ein es-Sultan refugee camp, two kilometres north of the centre of the Palestinian city of Jericho. The tell was inhabited from the 10th millennium BCE, which makes Jericho among the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. [3] The site is notable for its role in the history of Levantine archaeology.