ABSTRACT
In 1930 Professor John Garstang of Liverpool University announced that he had found the Jericho conquered by Joshua. Or at least he strongly implied that he had. His was not the first expedition to the famous biblical site where, according to the Old Testament, the Israelites made the walls come tumbling down. In 1868 Captain (later Sir) Charles Warren of the Royal Engineers, in Palestine at the behest of the Palestine Exploration Fund, dug into the mound, but he didn’t know enough about mud-brick to realize when he had dug through an Early Bronze Age wall. He declared there to be little of interest at the site.
