The Story of Explorer Montagu Parker

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Archaeology | 17 July 2023

5 things to know about the 17th of Tammuz

Many finds have been discovered in the City of David excavations, and they provide non-verbal testimony to the destruction of Jerusalem, both in the Babylonian period and in the Roman period. More than a thousand years after the destruction of the Second Temple, Jerusalem’s walls were breached again on the same date.

Archaeology | 30 August 2025

The largest dam in ancient Israel was uncovered in the City of David

A monumental dam excavated in the Siloam Pool in the City of David has now been dated in a joint study by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Weizmann Institute of Science, to the reign of the kings of Judah, Joash or Amaziah. Its construction may have been a creative solution to climate crisis , about 2,800 years ago, according to the researchers. The research, published Monday in the prestigious scientific journal PNAS, will be presented at the upcoming “City of David Studies” conference in early September.

Archaeology | 27 January 2025

The Siloam Inscription

This Hebrew inscription dates back to the Israeli period (eighth century BCE) and was discovered by two children in 1880, a few meters from the southern exit of the tunnel known as “Hezekiah's Tunnel”.

General | 5 December 2024

Cleaning materials from ancient times

While the aromas of soap and colorful bubbles swirl around you, we will go back in time and check which cleaning products were used by our ancestors in ancient times. A friendly warning before we begin: the smell is not great...

Lost Treasures Of Jerusalem – The Story of Explorer Montagu Parker

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5 things to know about the 17th of Tammuz

The largest dam in ancient Israel was uncovered in the City of David

The Siloam Inscription

Cleaning materials from ancient times