Physics is pitted against a Bible story with this simple question: could a team of trumpeters really bring down the walls of Jericho?
In the Bible, the walls of Jericho fall to the sound of seven shofar players (shofars are basically trumpets made of rams’ horns). In this podcast, engineer and sound expert David Lubman considers how many shofars it would actually take to knock down a Bronze Age wall.
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Author: RadioLab
Keywords: Walls of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho walls, Jericho walls fall down, Walls of Jericho fell down, Walls of Jericho fall down, Shofar, Trumpet, rams horns, seven trumpets, blowing the trumpet, seven rams horns
Bible reference(s): Joshua 6
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