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View A preliminary design for an illustration The Fall of the Walls of Jericho by Jan Luyken on artnet. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by Jan Luyken. Price Database. 21 December 2024. Artists.
Walls in the ancient city of Jericho, during the 1907 - 1909 excavations of Tell es-Sultan and Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq by German archeologists Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger, circa 1909.
ACCORDING to the old folk song, the walls of Jericho came “a-tumbling down” but this is exactly what one of Oxford’s historical societies is… ...
On the seventh, after a blast of trumpets and a mighty shout, the walls came tumbling down.* This happened about 1370 B.C., but it was a comparatively recent episode in the long history of Jericho.