Walls in the ancient city of Jericho, during the 1907 - 1909 excavations of Tell es-Sultan and Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq by German archeologists Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger, circa 1909.

On the seventh, after a blast of trumpets and a mighty shout, the walls came tumbling down.* This happened about 1370 B.C., but it was a comparatively recent episode in the long history of Jericho.

There’s a widespread fascination in Bradford with the Walls of Jericho which until 1986 were a unique Thornton landmark. Constructed between 1847 and 1891 to retain spoil from the quarries at ...