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A Decade of Discoveries in Biblical Jerusalem

By Yuval Gadot, Yiftah Shalev, Joe Uziel

The last decade saw exciting discoveries in the archaeology of biblical Jerusalem. Focusing on the City of David, three archaeologists summarize the most consequential finds they have uncovered. From the contentious tenth century BCE to the city’s demise at the hands of the Babylonians, archaeology continues to transform our understanding of the Holy City.

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Footnotes

1. Yuval Gadot and Yiftah Shalev, “Lifestyles of Jerusalem’s Rich and Famous,” BAR, Spring 2024.

2. For the possibility of this tower being the famous biblical Millo, see Chris McKinny et al., “The Millo: Jerusalem’s Lost Monument,” BAR, Fall 2023.

3. Reli Avisar, “Fragments of Luxury: The Jerusalem Ivories,” BAR, Spring 2024.

Endnotes

1. Kathleen M. Kenyon, Digging Up Jerusalem (London: Benn, 1974); Margreet Steiner, The Settlement in the Bronze and Iron Ages, vol. 3 of Excavations by Kathleen Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961–1967 (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2001).

2. Ronnie Reich, Eli Shukron, and Omri Lernau, “Recent Discoveries in the City of David, Jerusalem,” Israel Exploration Journal 57 (2007), pp. 153–169.

3. Ya’akov Billig, Liora Freud, and Efrat Bocher, “A Luxurious Royal Estate from the First Temple Period in Armon ha-Natziv, Jerusalem,” Tel Aviv 49 (2022), pp. 8–31.