EXCAVATION OF PRE-HISTORIC WALL

Excavations show the depth of the tel at Jericho,
built up over many centuries
The watch tower is at bottom left of the photograph

The Neolithic watch tower (above) was built and destroyed in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic era, in about  8000-7000 B.C.  The 8m diameter tower stands 8m tall and was connected on the inside to a 4m thick wall.

There was no stone at Jericho, so mud bricks were used from the earliest times (see the photo below). Though they required constant maintenance, they were cheap and easy to manufacture. 

The excavations show how the different levels were built one on top of each other, so that the level of the most recent city became higher and higher.

The massive but un-buttressed mud brick walls of ancient Jericho

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