Tell es-Sultan
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Tell es-Sultan (Arabic: تل السلطان, lit. Sultan's Hill), also known as Tel Jericho or Ancient Jericho, is an archaeological site and 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.[1][2]
Location | Jericho, West Bank State of Palestine |
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Region | Levant |
Coordinates | 31°52′16″N 35°26′38″E |
Type | Settlement |
History | |
Founded | c. 10,000 BCE |
Abandoned | c. 900 BCE |
Cultures | Natufian (Epipaleolithic), Jericho IX (Pottery Neolithic), Canaanite (Bronze Age) |
Official name | Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan |
Type | Cultural |
Criteria | iii, iv |
Designated | 2023 |
Reference no. | 1687 |
Region | Asia-Pacific |
It is located adjacent to the Ein as-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.
The area was first identified as the site of ancient Jericho in modern times by Charles Warren in 1868, on the basis of its proximity to the large spring of Ein es-Sultan, that had been proposed as the spring of Elisha by Edward Robinson three decades earlier.