After archaeologists conducted a number of digs in the mid-1900s in Jericho, they found four key things that verified the historical events of the Joshua 6 account of the destruction of this city. What are these four key things?

Jericho was ans is an ancients city best known from it mentioned in the biblical story associated with a tremendous victory over it Canaanite citizens by the Joshua an Israelite leader,and its ruins near the Dead sea in the West bank of Gaza.

Around 1,400 BCE, this city was attacked by the Israelite after they crossed the Jordan river and enter Canaan and its walls were destroyed when the Israelite walked around it for seven days carrying the Ark(Joshua 1:1 - 6:25).

Ernest Sellin and Carl Watzinger excavated Jericho between 1907 and 1909 and found the remains of the old city especially the two walls which supported the biblical account .

These four key things are:

1.The city was once strongly fortified.

2. The siege was short.

3. The walls were leveled

4. The city was burn