“mud bricks”

Ancient walls of Jericho

Jericho the oldest town and a big mystery t the western hillside upstream the Jordan river about 50 km north of the Dead Sea in Palestine, lies an old ruined mound consisting of dry mud, gravel and sun dried bricks. It’s a heap with a silhouette of rounded edges and it measures about 250 by 120 meters in the direction North to South. Today its highest point reaches around 25 meters over the plains, bur erosion through rain and wind has flattened it out from a more lofty position. By tradition