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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...
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    Ein es-Sultan is a natural spring in Jericho, at the site of ancient Jericho, which has been identified with the tell (archaeological mound) known as...
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    horns daily and the people shouting on the last day. Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, the biblical Jericho, have failed to find any traces of a city at the...
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    Jericho (category Tells (archaeology))
    of 'Ain es-Sultan dating from Early Bronze III. The earliest excavated settlement was located at the present-day Tell es-Sultan (or Sultan's Hill), a...
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  • Tell al-Sultan (or Tall as-Sultan, Tell es-Sultan and Tell Sultan) could refer to the following locations: Tell Sultan, a village in northern Syria Tel...
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  • located adjacent to the Ein es-Sultan or Elisha Spring, for which it is named, and the archaeological site of Tell es-Sultan, 1 kilometer north-west of...
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    in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BC. It is part of Tell es-Sultan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the State of Palestine, in the city...
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    of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called...
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  • Landscape of Southern Jerusalem; and Tell es-Sultan in ancient Jericho) and one in the Gaza Strip (Saint Hilarion Monastery/Tell Umm Amer). Three are on UNESCO's...
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    been widely accepted. In 1951 Kathleen Kenyon showed that City IV at Tell es-Sultan (Jericho) was destroyed at the end of the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2100–1550...
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    Göbekli Tepe (category Tells (archaeology))
    Pre-Pottery Neolithic period at Levantine sites such as Tell es-Sultan (also known as Jericho), Tell Aswad, and Yiftahel, and later in Anatolia at Çatalhöyük...
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    Other early PPNA sites dating to around 9500–9000 BC have been found in Tell es-Sultan (ancient Jericho), Israel (notably Ain Mallaha, Nahal Oren, and Kfar...
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  • believed to have founded another early settlement on the site of Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) where there is evidence of building between 9600 BC and 8200 BC. Dates...
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    recently expanded and re-calibrated by Yosef Garfinkel to correlate with Tell es-Sultan (Jericho): Early Neolithic (early phase) corresponding to the Pre-Pottery...
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    Bhirrana Çatalhöyük Göbekli Tepe Jiahu Lepenski Vir Mehrgarh Sesklo Sarazm Tell es-Sultan Grant, Jim; Gorin, Sam; Fleming, Neil (2015-03-27). The Archaeology...
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    very ancient sites such as Göbekli Tepe, Chogha Golan, and Jericho (Tell es-Sultan). This region, alongside Mesopotamia (Greek for "between rivers", between...
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    of the Fertile Crescent with their most significant site at Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) in the Jordan Valley. The Natufian people had been sedentary or semi-sedentary...
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  • Jerusalem, though it still remains in the convention. The inclusion of Tell es-Sultan in ancient Jericho as a Palestinian site was criticized by Israel's...
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  • BCE. This period was first identified at the ancient site of Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) by British archaeologists John Garstang and Kathleen Kenyon in separate...
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    in early Bronze Age levels of Tell es-Sultan (Jericho) in the West Bank, as well as late Bronze Age levels of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus and Tiryns. A...
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    constructions were built, including settlement towers and walls, e.g., Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) and ceremonial sites, e.g.: Stonehenge. The Ġgantija temples of Gozo...
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    in archaeological digs from Turkey (Hacilar) to Palestine (Jericho (Tell es-Sultan)) and date back to 5600 BC." Baking flourished during the Roman Empire...
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    Neolithic B sites in Turkey and the Levant, namely at Çayönü, Hacilar, and Tell es-Sultan (Jericho). Chickpeas then spread to the Mediterranean region around...
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    pit fired. Dame Kathleen Kenyon was the principal archaeologist at Tell es-Sultan (ancient Jericho) and she discovered that there was no pottery there...
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    Plastered skull, Tell es-Sultan, Jericho, Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, c. 9000 BC...
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    to 9,500 BP), at sites such as Beidha, Tell Ghoraifé, Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), Abu Hureyra, Tell Halula, Tell Aswad and Cafer Höyük. Emmer is found in...
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  • Tell Abraq Et-Tell Jericho Khirbet Tibnah Shiloh (biblical city) Tell Balata Tell en-Nasbeh Tell es-Sultan Tell (archaeology) List of tells in Lebanon The...
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    does not appear in the archaeological record until relatively late, at Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), c. 9900–9550 years ago. Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherers...
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    irreplaceable heritage damage cannot be determined financially." Tel es-Sultan (meaning the "Sultan's Hill") is located in Jericho, approximately two kilometers...
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    the Jewish community of his time. Jericho Monastery of the Temptation Tell es-Sultan CIA (1994), p. 18. CIA (2008). Jericho (2015). Ramon, Amnon (2000)....
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