After the abandonment of the Tell es-Sultan location, the new Jericho of the Late Hellenistic or
Hasmonean and Early Roman or Herodian periods was established as a garden city in the vicinity of the royal estate at Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq and expanded greatly thanks to the intensive exploitation of the springs of the area.
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Jericho - Wikipediat by the Macabees.[44] One of these forts, built at the entrance to Wadi Qelt, was later refortified by Herod the Great, who named it Kypros after his mother.[45] Hasmonean and Herodian periods <span>After the abandonment of the Tell es-Sultan location, the new Jericho of the Late Hellenistic or Hasmonean and Early Roman or Herodian periods was established as a garden city in the vicinity of the royal estate at Tulul Abu el-'Alayiq and expanded greatly thanks to the intensive exploitation of the springs of the area.[43] The new site consists of a group of low mounds on both banks of Wadi Qelt.[41] The Hasmoneans were a dynasty descending from a priestly group (kohanim) from the tribe of Levi, who r Summary
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