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.” The decision was made at a ...

Located northwest of present-day Jericho in the Jordan Valley in Palestine ... The stratigraphy of this archaeological site shows twenty-nine phases of occupation and testifies to two ...

An image of the ancient Jericho archaeological site. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee is expected to list the site of ancient Jericho, which is now an ...

In the heart of the arid Judean Desert, beneath the gaze of timeworn cliffs and desert heat, sits the city of Jericho, a ...

“The property proposed for nomination is the prehistoric archaeological site of Tell es-Sultan located outside the antique site of Jericho,” Ernesto Ottone, UNESCO’s assistant director ...

Mohammed Mansour, in charge of developing Jericho’s archaeological sites, is mindful of the shortcomings but says improvements are on the way, thanks to funding from Italy. “We will make a new ...

The site today is an archaeological park located in the modern city that still bears the biblical name. Jericho is one of 53 natural and cultural sites the World Heritage Committee will be voting ...

The Tell es-Sultan archaeological near Jericho, West Bank, on September 17, 2023. MAHMOUD ILLEAN / AP The archeological site of Tell es-Sultan lies a little way from the center of Jericho ...

UNESCO, which refers to the site as Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan, took pains to clarify that the two are distinct. “The property proposed for nomination is the prehistoric archaeological site ...

“The property proposed for nomination is the prehistoric archaeological site of Tell es-Sultan located outside the antique site of Jericho,” Ernesto Ottone, UNESCO's assistant director ...