The Battle of Jericho, as described in the Bible's Book of Joshua, marked the first battle fought in the Israelites' conquest of Canaan. The battle is famous for the triumphant fall of Jericho's ...

So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell ...

Shovels, Not Trumpets Caused Fall of Jericho, 4,000 Years Ago. November 4, 1930. ... which caused the fall of that city 4,000 years ago before Joshua and the invading Israelites.

Interim excavation report (Vicino Oriente XXIX, 2024) links a ninth-century BCE inscription and two Bronze-Age fire layers to the Judges and Exodus narratives.