The first city
The bible tells how Joshua and the Israelites brought down the walls of the city of Jericho with a blast of trumpets. Archaeologist have shown that Jericho really existed, and may have been the world's first city. It grew up in a farming area of the Middle East, and by 8000 BC it had massive stone walls. So when Joshua captured it in about 1400 BC Jericho was several thousand years old.