Jericho , City, West Bank
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...Jesus temptation by Satan) is now accessible by cable car. The economy suffered, however, when Palestinian-Israeli violence again flared beginning in 2000. According to the biblical book of Joshua , Jericho was captured from the Canaanites by...Sultan, the original site, were begun early in the 20th cent. and have revealed the oldest known settlement in the world, dating perhaps from c.8000 b.c. Archaeologists have not found evidence of the town of Joshua; ruins identified as such in...