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Just visit historyhit.com slash subscribe. It's 1953, and the sounds of digging and the hustle and bustle of workmen can be heard for miles around.

Archaeologists are hard at work, recording amazing structures and artefacts that have started

to emerge from the ground in this incredible, arid, yet fertile landscape.

The setting is an ancient site atop a small hill in the Great Jordan Valley, north of the Dead Sea.

An ancient city famed from the Bible for its strong walls that ultimately came crashing down.

A place with archaeology stretching back 10,000 years, one of the oldest continually occupied

sites in the world.

Jericho.

The workers are digging deep.

The soil subtly changes in colour as they descend lower and lower into the ground,

marking layers and layers of history, thousands of years of archaeology. It's the last week of the

excavation. Soon these trenches will be filled in, and the threat of looting will descend on the

site until the next season. But then, peeking out from the side of one trench, a skull, covered in dirt and plaster,

with shells for striking eyes, as well as other facial features carved out of the plaster,

a nose, cheeks, ears.

It's an extraordinary discovery, and the first of many.

Over time, more of these skulls would be discovered, first at Jericho and then at other

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