Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Список найдавніших міст світу з безперервним поселенням" in Ukrainian language version.
Jericho, in the Jordan River Valley in Israel, inahbited from ca. 9000 BC to the present day, offers important evidence for the earliest permanent settlements in the Near East.
People first settled there from around 9000 B.C., and by 8000 B.C., the community was organized enough to build a stone wall to defend the city.
The city was walled during much of its history and the evidence indicates that it was abandoned several times, and later expanded and rebuilt several times.
