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The Interrupted Search for King David’s Palace

By Hershel Shanks

Eilat Mazar was forced to put her excavation of what may be King David’s palace on hold to excavate the collapsing Northern Tower. Her amazing discoveries were worth it.

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Footnotes

1.

Avraham Biran, “‘David’ Found at Dan,” BAR 20:02.

2.

Avraham Faust, “Did Eilat Mazar Find David’s Palace?” BAR 38:05; Eilat Mazar, “Did I Find King David’s Palace?” BAR 32:01.

3.

Hershel Shanks, “Shifting the Temple Mount Dump: Finds from the First Temple Period to Modern Times,” BAR 31:04.

Endnotes

1.

Eilat Mazar, The Summit of the City of David Excavations 2005–2008, Final Reports, vol. 1 (Jerusalem: Shoham, Academic Research and Publication, 2015).