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 ...

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 ...