“But Jericho was a town, nine thousand years ago. Fifty centuries before the Pyramids rose in Egypt, a large fortified community existed in the valley of the Jordan, raising crops and domesticated animals. At that incredibly early date, when virtually all the world was a hunting ground for simple nomads, Jericho was a self-sufficient and fully organized settlement of cooperating citizens.”
Silverberg plunges the reader into the ancient past, showing how modern science has uncovered, and is still uncovering, the secret frontiers of archeology, the forgotten life of the ancient past.
Philadelphia et al: Chilton Book Company, 1968. Second printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 182 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with chipping and edge wear—in protector. Boards clean with minimal signs of wear. Slight crushing at spine ends. Binding tight and square. Pages tanned. Solid copy.
