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Jericho might interest you then. It's an oasis city, with a very distinctive view of surrounding hills. The most ancient structures are from 9kya, and the city
by netcan 7y ago
Jericho might interest you then. It's an oasis city, with a very distinctive view of surrounding hills.
The most ancient structures are from 9kya, and the city existed in a lot of forms since that point. I believe the current city streets are from the Roman period, and probably date to the iron age or older.
What fascinates me about the site is the architectural similarity between the oldest city (the 9kya, neolithic city) and Çatalhöyük of the same period. These are the oldest known cities, and predate the oldest known "empires" by a lot.
This hints at a neolithic (and perhaps even ice age) cultural exchange over very large distances.
- cultus 7y agoJericho even had town walls complete with a tower at 9kya. Absolutely astonishing, because they were even pre-pottery.
- dwohnitmok 7y agoAccording to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho it looks like the city has moved around a bit (not a huge amount, but a few kilometers) over time. It looks like the modern city's location was finally decided in the 4th century AD. Also it seems to have been razed and rebuilt quite a few times. Given that many structures from the Byzantine period had to be excavated (as in they were buried beneath the ground), I suspect the current city streets are quite a bit younger than dating from the Romans.