This city flourished in the Hyksos period and came to a violent end in about 1560 BC. During most of the 17th and 16th centuries Jericho was not inhabited, and if there were any buildings at this period they must have been washed away by the winter rains. There was a little pottery of the 14th century BC. It seems that the site was inhabited after the beginning of this century but deserted again by the second half. Nothing remained of the fortifications of this period; their fall, according to the