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I’ve been there. If it is the same dig that I had the prieledge of exploring, then it was nowhere near any residences. There is a large buffer area between the old city wall down to the road below. Nearly all of it was once covered with grass, but as more and more of it is uncovered, a wealth of 1st century ruins details the lives of the people in that time. On the eastern side, near the Hulda Gates, there is an old Muslim cemetery, but not much of anything else. They have even found hundreds of foreign coinage from the 1st Century, which would indicate that this is where the Money Changers would sit and exchange foreign coins for the “Sheckle of the Sanctury” often at illegal, usurious prices. And we KNOW what happened to THEM! LOL. These digs are wonderous, historical places that validate both the Jewish and Christian Bible. As long as no GRAVES are disturbed, I have no problem with Biblical Archaeology. BUT there are political forces in the Holy Land that DO NOT want a Jewish Connection to the temple mount to be proven by these digs.

And we KNOW who they are!