Excavations at Jericho and Ai indicate that both of these towns were ; laid waste at least 200 years before the probable time of Joshua; so there weren't even any walls in Jericho at the time of Joshua.

耶利哥和艾城的挖掘都显示这两个城镇,都在约书亚前200年就已被毁损;,因此在约书亚时期，耶利哥根本就没有城墙。

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Which is why you can travel right now to Turkey or Syria or Israel or Jordan or Egypt, and you can see excavations of towns, and it's remarkable how they all look so much alike, because they're all inspired by this originally Greek model of the city.

如果你现在去土耳其,叙利亚，以色列，约旦或埃及旅游，就会发现当地考古挖掘出的古城镇，都惊人的相似，因为都是根据古希腊模型建的。

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