Herod’s Winter Palace

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Located along the river banks of Wadi Qilt, 3 kms southwest of Jericho. It is identified with the garden city of Jericho during the Greco-Roman period which was described by the historians during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as Strabo, Pliny, and Josephus.

In addition to being the winter resort of the Herodian family, Josephus tells of Mark Antony gifting Herod's cherished Jericho balsam groves to Cleopatra.

The garden city also contains a network of water channels and aqueducts which were constructed to exploit the water from the surrounding springs of Ain Es-Sultan, Nueima, Ed-Deyuk, and Wadi Qilt. The first investigations at Telul Abu Alayeq were carried out by C. Warren in 1868, and by E. Sellin and C. Watzinger between 1909 and 1911.

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Located along the river banks of Wadi Qilt, 3 kms southwest of Jericho. It is identified with the garden city of Jericho during the Greco-Roman period which was described by the historians during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, such as Strabo, Pliny, and Josephus.

In addition to being the winter resort of the Herodian family, Josephus tells of Mark Antony gifting Herod’s cherished Jericho balsam groves to Cleopatra.

The garden city also contains a network of water channels and aqueducts which were constructed to exploit the water from the surrounding springs of Ain Es-Sultan, Nueima, Ed-Deyuk, and Wadi Qilt. The first investigations at Telul Abu Alayeq were carried out by C. Warren in 1868, and by E. Sellin and C. Watzinger between 1909 and 1911.