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The Walls of Jericho is a 750-acre (300 ha) natural area that is within the 8,943-acre (3,619 ha) Bear Hollow Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tennessee, which is contiguous to the Skyline WMA in Alabama. It was designated in 2016 and is owned by State of Tennessee. Both of the public lands on the Tennessee and Alabama side total ...
Hytop is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated on May 17, 1991. [2] As of the 2010 census, the population of the town was 354, up from 315 in 2000. The Walls of Jericho, a popular hiking area, is located just north of Hytop.
In 1868, Charles Warren identified Tell es-Sultan as the site of biblical Jericho. [4] Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger excavated the site between 1907 and 1909 and in 1911, finding the remains of two walls which they initially suggested supported the biblical account of the Battle of Jericho.
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The Walls of Jericho usually refer to the destruction of the walls of Jericho in the biblical story of the Battle of Jericho. Walls of Jericho may also refer to: Wall of Jericho (Neolithic), a prehistoric wall around the city of Jericho; Wrestler Chris Jericho’s signature submission, The Boston Crab, also known as the Walls of Jericho.
If interpreted as an "urban fortification", the Wall of Jericho is the oldest city wall discovered by archaeologists anywhere in the world. [39] Surrounding the wall was a ditch 8.2 metres (27 ft) wide by 2.7 metres (9 ft) deep, cut through solid bedrock with a circumference around the town of as much as 600 metres (2,000 ft). [ 40 ]
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JERICHO, West Bank (AP) — A U.N. committee voted Sunday to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision that angered Israel ...