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Tower of Jericho

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c. 8000 BC · Jericho · Middle East · Culture

A stone tower five thousand years older than the pyramids

Tower of Jericho
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Around 8000 BC the people of Jericho built an 8.5-metre stone tower with an internal staircase of 22 steps — one of the oldest monumental structures in the world. It was raised by people who did not yet make pottery, more than five thousand years before the pyramids of Egypt.