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.” CNN values your feedback 1.

Interim excavation report (Vicino Oriente XXIX, 2024) links a ninth-century BCE inscription and two Bronze-Age fire layers to the Judges and Exodus narratives.

Tell es-Sultan is one of the largest settlement mounds in the Jordan Valley and belongs to historical Jericho.The site has been occupied since the proto-Neolithic, with only a few phases of abatement.

Jericho’s Tell es-Sultan, oldest Palestinian agricultural town, inscribed as World Heritage Site Tell es-Sultan is oval-shaped mound that contains prehistorical deposits of human activity Qais ...

The addition of Tell es-Sultan —a prehistoric site in Jericho in the occupied West Bank—to Unesco’s World Heritage site list has inflamed tensions in Israel and Palestine. While Palestinians ...

Tell es-Sultan archaeological near Jericho, West Bank, site is seen. A U.N. conference voted Sunday to list the site as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, ...

Tell es-Sultan archaeological near Jericho, West Bank, site is seen Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. A U.N. conference voted Sunday to list the site as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, ...

Tell es-Sultan archaeological near Jericho, West Bank, site is seen Sunday, September 17, 2023. A U.N. conference voted Sunday to list the site as a World Heritage Site within the Palestinian ...

Participants, including national and international experts and specialists gathered in Jericho this week for a two-day international symposium on the conservation and management of the site of Tell es ...