Abstract
The Bible presents the story of the conquest and destruction of Jericho by Joshua and the Israelite army as an historical incident. The location of Jericho is not disputed and excavations should be able to confirm that these events really happened. There should be evidence of toppled walls, a layer of ash caused by the deliberate conflagration above that, ceramic, and circumstantial evidence of a new people with a new culture. There is plenty such evidence but archaeologists have dated it to a time period 600 years before the Israelites arrived. However, the archaeological strata have been incorrectly dated and all this obvious evidence can be correctly attributed to the Israelite invasion, thus vindicating the biblical record and supplying the archaeological world with a plausible explanation for the evidence of destruction for which it, at present, can find no historical information.