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I am really excited to read and write about the fall of the walls of Jericho but have no time now so I would like to give you a little preview to get you ready for the amazing story.

"As to the main fact, then, there remains no doubt: the walls [of the city] fell outwards so completely that the attackers would be able to clamber up and over their ruins into the city." Prof. John Garstang

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