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Wailing Wall is the older English name for the Western Wall (the Kotel), the surviving western retaining wall of the Second Temple. The post here covers Second Temple-period Jerusalem and the Wall’s place in it.

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Excavations of the outer western (the Kotel) and southern walls of the Second Temple Mount
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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
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
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