During its long 10,000 years, Jericho has seen much. If the city's ancient stones could talk, they would fill several libraries with their stories.

Jericho is also the second most visited city on the West Bank, following Bethlehem, the town in which the Bible states that the birth of Jesus took place. The Old Testament of the Bible records in the ...

Archaeologists working in the city have for years made finds that appear to correlate to the Bible story. One such discovery was previously made by researchers working in the city's ancient old ...

Ruins near the ancient biblical city of Jericho have been declared a World Heritage Site, with some Israeli officials bristling at the move. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

The ancient city of Jericho is one of the world’s oldest continuously occupied areas. Nearby ruins originated in the ninth millennium BCE, according to CNN. Why, then, is it controversial for ...

Israel: Archaeologists 'dig up the Bible' in city of Shiloh. ... Ancient Jericho, known today as Tell ed-Sultan, is located in the West Bank, about 1.2 miles from the centre of modern-day Jericho.

It is around 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the remains of the first city of Jericho, which contains ruins of importance to Jewish history, including a synagogue dating back to the first century B.C.

The United Nations World Heritage Committee voted Sunday to list the Tell es-Sultan archaeological site in Jericho as a “World Heritage Site in Palestine.” ...

Many experts believe the destruction of the Palestinian city of Jericho was chronicled in the King James Bible's Book of Joshua, according to The New York Times.It was a vibrant hub of cultural ...

"And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho. And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus, who was the chief among the tax collectors, and he was rich.

JERICHO, West Bank — Visitors to ancient Jericho got a rare glimpse Sunday of a massive 1,200-year-old carpet mosaic measuring nearly 9,700 square feet, making it one of the largest in the ...