Archeologists Reveal Intact Yerushalayim City Wall From Bayis Rishon

In the City of David National Park, Israeli archeologists have unearthed a section of Yerushalayim’s city wall constructed during the Bayis Rishon period, which the invading Babylonian army was thought to have completely destroyed during the 586 BCE occupation.

According to the directors of the excavation, Dr Filip Vukosavović of the Ancient Jerusalem Research Center and Dr Joe Uziel and Ortal Chalaf on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority: “The city wall protected Jerusalem from a number of attacks during the reign of the kings of Yehuda, until the arrival of the Babylonians who managed to break through it and conquer the city… However, not everything was destroyed, and parts of the walls, which stood and protected the city for decades and more, remain standing to this day.”

The newly revealed section of the wall appears to connect two separate pieces that were excavated in the 1960s and 1970s by British archeologist Kathleen Kenyon and Israeli archeologist Yigal Shiloh, respectively.

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{Matzav.com}