What did biblical Jerusalem look like some 2,500 years ago?

• Author: ROSSELLA TERCATIN
• Published date: 23 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

In the past few years, some new archaeological discoveries at the outskirt of the city have shed new light on the centuries that separate the Assyrian military campaign in the region in the last decades of the 8th century BCE and the Babylonian conquest in 586 BCE, which resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple.

"What we have uncovered is a level of wealth that we could not imagine before," Prof. Yuval Gadot, the head Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel-Aviv University - and co-director of the excavations conducted by TAU and the Israeli Antiquities Authority at the City of David - said.

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