The section of the wall that was exposed.photo credit: KOBI HARATI/CITY OF DAVID
Posted on 07/19/2021 8:41:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A section of Jerusalem’s city wall built some 2,700 years ago and mostly destroyed by the Babylonian army in 586 BCE was uncovered by archaeologists in the City of David National Park...
The massive structure – some 5 m. wide – was built on the steep eastern slope leading to the city, just a few dozen meters away from the Temple Mount.
Probably the steepness of the area preserved the structure from destruction during the Babylonian conquest – a vivid account of which is offered in the Bible – since the invading army likely accessed the city from an easier path...
For the archaeologist, uncovering the remains was very emotional, as related by Dr. Filip Vukosavovic of the Ancient Jerusalem Research Center, a codirector of the excavation with Dr. Joe Uziel and Ortal Chalaf on behalf of the IAA...
Indeed, the remains not only present an incredible testimony about centuries of life in Jerusalem and their tragic end but they also solved a decades-long archaeological mystery. During excavations in the area led by British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon in the 1960s and by archaeologist Yigal Shiloh in the 1970s, remains of a massive wall were unearthed in two different spots of the slope. However, since the two structures did not appear to be connected, most scholars did not believe that they were part of a city wall, whose presence was described in the Bible but still needed to be proven by archaeological evidence.
“Now we can say with certainty that the city wall did exist, at least on the eastern slope,” Vukosavovic said. Since the eastern slope represented the most difficult approach to access Jerusalem, it is safe to assume that also the rest of the city was surrounded by a wall, he added.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
The section of the wall that was exposed.photo credit: KOBI HARATI/CITY OF DAVID
more to come, if I get to it.
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My house was built in 1825 and the basement walls look the same.
Masons are sourced from Israel?
Looks like Good Work.
What the Jerusalem Post article meant and more correctly to say was 586 BC .
FIFY
Uh, no.
Uh, no.
Be glad Nebuchanezzar hasn't been by.
Good luck with that, and your NewSpeak too.
Right back at ya.
“ According to 2 Kings 25:10, “The entire Chaldean [Babylonian] force that was with the chief of the guard tore down the walls of Jerusalem on every side” (The Jewish Publication Society Tanakh). But this newly found extant section of the eastern city wall, connected to two previously excavated and documented sections, means that potentially the entire length of the eastern border was not in fact torn down by the conquering Babylonians.”
Whether the fortifications were built before the earlier siege of the Assyrians in 701 BCE or later is still unclear. Pinpointing a more precise date is “a little too fine-tuned in terms of archaeological data we have,” said Uziel, who added that “hopefully in the future we’ll be able to narrow it down more.”
Before Christ and Anno Domini in use for all Western recorded history.
You wanna go all secular aint gonna change sh1t but you go gurl.
And what is CE based upon ?
PNHD !
Like it was destroyed by the Babylonian Army?.................
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