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The City of David is the original Bronze Age and Iron Age core of Jerusalem, on the ridge south of the Old City walls. Posts here include the First Temple-period archaeology of the site (Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the Siloam Pool), the Second Temple-period layers above them, and the broader miscellany of Jerusalem pieces in which the City of David comes up often.

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Book used by Eliezer Ben Yehuda to create Modern Hebrew
Centre · Jerusalem

Jerusalem: a miscellany

A miscellany day in Jerusalem covering sites that don't fit a single theme: the Church of St Etienne, the École Biblique, the Armenian Ceramics Workshop, St George's Cathedral, and Hezekiah's Tunnel in the City of David.

Church of St Etienne, Jerusalem Book used by Eliezer Ben Yehuda to create Modern Hebrew Armenian ceramic design, Jerusalem St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem Inside Hezekiah's Tunnel, Jerusalem
Excavations of the outer western (the Kotel) and southern walls of the Second Temple Mount
Centre · Jerusalem

Jerusalem in the Second Temple period

A field trip through Jerusalem's Second Temple period sites: the City of David, the Tyropoeon valley drainage channel, the Davidson Centre, the Burnt House, the Wohl Museum of Archaeology, and the excavations beneath the Western and southern walls of the Temple Mount.

Walking up the Roman drainage channel in the Tyropoeon valley Capital possibly from the second temple The Burnt House of the Katros family, Jerusalem The oldest mosaic in Israel in the Wohl Museum of Archaelogy, Jerusalem Mikve from the second temple period in the western wall excavations Herodian street from the second temple period
"The Broad Wall": remains of Hezekiah's 7 meter wide northern defensive wall in Jerusalem
Centre · Jerusalem

Jerusalem in the First Temple Period

Our first field-trip to Jerusalem, focusing on the First Temple period: a panorama from the Haas Promenade, the archaeology of the City of David, Hezekiah's Broad Wall and the Israelite gate tower, and the Ariel Centre's model of the early city.

View north over Jerusalem from the Haas Promenade View from the top of the City of David over South and East Jerusalem Inside the water tunnels in the City of David "The Broad Wall": remains of Hezekiah's 7 meter wide northern defensive wall in Jerusalem Remains of the gate tower from Hezekiah's wall around Jerusalem Model of Jerusalem in First Temple times at the Ariel Center
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