Jericho’s claim to fame is the way it was captured by Joshua. As the Lord commanded, he and the children of Israel marched around the city once a day for six days. On the seventh, after a blast of ...

Few biblical stories are as visually vivid as the fall of Jericho, with marching priests, blaring trumpets and city walls collapsing in a cloud of dust. For more than a century, archaeologists have ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...