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Ir David

Ir David (the City of David) is the original Iron Age core of Jerusalem, on the ridge south of the Temple Mount. Excavations there have uncovered Canaanite and Israelite layers. Posts here cover the site through the First Temple period and into Second Temple Jerusalem, taking in Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the Gihon Spring, and the late Second Temple stepped street up to the Temple Mount.

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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.

Jun 2013 · 5 minute read

Archaeology Burnt House City of David Davidson Centre

Walking up the Roman drainage channel in the Tyropoeon valley

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.

Feb 2013 · 4 minute read

Archaeology Ariel Center City of David Diaspora