A United Nations committee has voted to declare ruins near the ancient city of Jericho a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a move that has angered some Israeli officials. The World Heritage Committee ...

The Nomination files produced by the States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to ...

Few biblical stories are as visually vivid as the fall of Jericho, with marching priests, blaring trumpets and city walls collapsing in a cloud of dust. For more than a century, archaeologists have ...

JERICHO, West Bank (AP) — A U.N. conference voted Sunday to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision likely to anger Israel, ...

A U.N. committee voted Sunday to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine, a decision that angered Israel, which controls the territory ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...