[SunkenCiv]

The section of the wall that was exposed.

photo credit: KOBI HARATI/CITY OF DAVID

[bimboeruption]

My house was built in 1825 and the basement walls look the same.

[Paladin2]

Masons are sourced from Israel?

Looks like Good Work.

[A strike]

What the Jerusalem Post article meant and more correctly to say was 586 BC .

[Fiji Hill]

A section of Jerusalem’s city wall built some 2,700 years ago and mostly destroyed by the Babylonian army in 586 BCE BC was uncovered by archaeologists in the City of David National Park...

FIFY

[HollyB]

“ 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.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/first-temple-era-walls-razed-in-biblical-account-found-unbreached-in-jerusalem/amp/

[Governor Dinwiddie]

As long as they're digging maybe they could remove that "mosque" turd eyesore while they are at it.