Jerico Castle Crumpled of Mud Bricks/10K Years some Old City

The biblical invasion of Canaan is situated in the 13th century BC. And back then, Jericho didn’t have walls. In fact, Jericho had very little in those days; it didn't even have inhabitants. When the Israelites arrived, Jericho had been abandoned for at least 300 years. Many Christian websites proudly point out that archaeologists indeed have dug up the remains of Jericho’s crumbled walls. And that’s true. But what they don’t tell you, is that Jericho had many walls over time, built on top another. The last one caved in around 2,100 BC. That’s more than 800 years before the Israelites arrived! 800 Years, that's the time difference between us and the crusaders. Jericho is the oldest city of the world that is still inhabited. People have lived in it since 8,000 BC, although sometimes the place was abandoned for centuries. And in some periods, it had walls. But these ‘walls’ weren’t exactly castle walls: they weren’t very high and archaeologists suspect they were meant for defense against floods rather than enemy armies. When archaeologist John Garstang dug up the first crumbled wall in the 1930s, there was excitement all over the world. The tumbling walls of Jericho had been found! But in the 1950s, another archaeologist, Kathleen Kenyon, spoiled the party. She proved that the ruins Garstang had found were much, much older. The walls were destroyed many hundreds of years before Joshua arrived.