Webthis chapter will provide a brief general historical background on the archaeology of palestine before going on to give a more detailed account of the archaeological surveys,. Webarchaeologists have evidence of a space rock that obliterated jericho some 3,600 years ago may have inspired the biblical story of sodom. Websecrets of jericho uncovered by the archaeologists spade; Excavations reveal burial vaults of the canaanite civilization in the bronze age, and a.
