The Tower of JERICHO (~8000 BCE) is one of the oldest stone structures known! ~30ft wide, 28ft tall, with a 22-step interior staircase. Kenyon found it in the 1950s. 🏛️
11,000-year-old stone tower discovered at JERICHO by Kathleen Kenyon
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Key facts
- Tower of JERICHO built around 11,000 years ago in Pre-Pottery Neolithic period
- Discovered during Kathleen Kenyon's excavations in the 1950s
- Tower diameter approximately 30 feet, height 28 feet
- Constructed with undressed stone, 5-foot-thick walls
- Interior staircase with 22 steps leading to roof
- Conical shape, internally and externally plastered
- Base diameter 30 feet reducing to 23 feet at top
- Estimated 11,000 days of labor required for construction
- Built against boundary wall measuring half its height
- Roy Lien and Ran Bark published analysis in 2011 in Antiquity journal
Sources
Tower of Jericho - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
The Tower of Jericho (Arabic: برج أريحا) is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) stone structure built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BC.
Jericho - Smarthistorysmarthistory.org
Archaeologists discovered one uniquely large building dating to the period with unique series of plastered interior pits and basins as well as domed adjoining ...
Tower of Jericho: One Of The Earliest Stone Monuments Of Humanitythearchaeologist.org
The Tower of Jericho is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 ft) stone structure, built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BC.
Tower of Jericho - Madain Project (en)madainproject.com
The Tower of Jericho, in Tell es-Sultan (تل السلطان) is an 8.5-metre-tall (28 feet) stone structure, built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 ...
THE Round Stone Tower of Jericho - ESRA Magazinemagazine.esra.org.il
The walls inside of the tower were made smooth with plastered mud. The top of the tower no doubt commanded a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside that ...
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