Tell es-Sultan

Tell es-Sultan

Tell es-Sultan
Shown within State of Palestine
Location	Jericho, West Bank Palestine
Region	Levant
Coordinates	31°52′16″N 35°26′38″E / 31.87111°N 35.44389°E / 31.87111; 35.44389
Type	Settlement
History
Founded	c. 10,000 BCE
Abandoned	c. 900 BCE
Cultures	Natufian (Epipaleolithic), Jericho IX (Pottery Neolithic), Canaanite (Bronze Age)
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name	Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan
Type	Cultural
Criteria	iii, iv
Designated	2023
Reference no.	1687
Region	Asia-Pacific

Tell es-Sultan (Arabic: تل السلطان, lit. Sultan's Hill), also known as Tel Jericho or Ancient Jericho, is an archaeological site and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Palestine, in the city of Jericho, consisting of the remains of the oldest fortified city in the world.^[1][2]

It is located adjacent to the Ein as-Sultan refugee camp, two kilometres north of the centre of the Palestinian city of Jericho. The tell was inhabited from the 10th millennium BCE, which makes Jericho among the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world.^[3] The site is notable for its role in the history of Levantine archaeology.

The area was first identified as the site of ancient Jericho in modern times by Charles Warren in 1868, on the basis of its proximity to the large spring of Ein es-Sultan, that had been proposed as the spring of Elisha by Edward Robinson three decades earlier.