Father & son, ping.
Prof. Mazar took up the challenge started searching for a place to dig by looking at the description of the location by reading from 2 Samuel 5:17. She traced where she thought the palace should be based off that trace and started digging. 2 Samuel 5:17 states that: "When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they went up in full force to search for him, but David heard about it and went down [from his palace] to the [citadel]."
She found monumental foundation stones that she says date from the first half of the 10th century B.C., the time of David. Now Finkelstein ridicules the find...
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She is doing what folks have been doing for years and years......make something up for Jerusalem tourists