The Walls of Jericho
Publisher |
The British Museum
Media Type |
audio
Podknife tags |
History
Museums
Society & Culture
Categories Via RSS |
History
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
Dec 13, 2016
Episode Duration |
00:24:57
The ideal scenario for any archaeologist? Finding something different. Something unexpected. Something that had never been found by anyone before.
 
But what if you made this discovery in the middle of the Jordan Valley, on the last day of excavations, with most of your equipment already packed up and only a handful of staff still on site?
 
This is exactly what happened to the archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon at Jericho in April 1953. One of her team, Peter Parr, had finished the final recording for the work done that year and pointed out that a stone protruding from the side of his trench was a skull. Concerned that it might be damaged through being left exposed, he and Kenyon decided to excavate. What they found continues to fascinate archaeologists – and the wider public – today.

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