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Curious places in Palestine
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Jericho's 10,000-Year-Old Stone TowerAn 8.5-meter stone tower from 8000 BCE - the world's oldest known monumental structure with an internal staircase. Built before pottery, metal, or writing existed anywhere. Whether for defense or ritual remains debated, but someone organized this construction 10,000 years ago.
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World's First Urban Fortifications8,000-year-old stone walls protecting Jericho. The earliest known urban fortifications in human history.
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