In more recent times, archaeological research has cast doubt on the historical veracity性 of Joshua 6, as well as many other biblical passages. As recently as the 1930s, British archaeologist John Garstang declared the archaeological evidence to be perfectly consistent with a conquest of Jericho around 1400 bc, but the archaeological consensus changed when Kathleen Kenyon later concluded that Jericho had been destroyed about 1550 bc and that no city existed at Tell es-Sultan at any time that would be consistent with the account in Joshua.