Jerusalem

Jerusalem comes up so often in this blog that it has its own category. The posts here range across the city’s layers, from the Iron Age remains of the City of David and Second Temple-period archaeology through Crusader and Mamluk Jerusalem, the European-power buildings ringing the Old City from the late 19th century, the British Mandate years, and the divisions that shape the modern city. Specific sites (the Western Wall, the Holy Sepulchre, Ammunition Hill, Yad Vashem) sit alongside more reflective pieces about what it’s like to guide people here.