They unearth a wall in Jerusalem of the time of Jesus
A team of archaeologists has announced who have unearthed in the mount of Sion the rest of a wall of 2,100 years of antiquity which they constructed in the south of Jerusalem hasmoneos kings during the period of the Second Templo. The wall, that was destroyed during the Great Jewish Revolt against Rome that began in year 66 a.C. , one is next to the outside of the present wall of the Old City of Jerusalem and near a catholic cemetery that was constructed the past century and where Oskar Schindler is buried, according to it informs the newspaper `The Jerusalem Post'.
The resistant wall, that is created could have surrounded the Old City in a perimeter of six kilometers, had already been found by a American archaeologist at the end of century XIX, according to explained the Authority of Antiques of Israel. The Israeli archaeologist who, for more than year and a half, has carried out the excavation, Yehiel Zelinger, also has found the rest of another wall of the city of the Byzantine period (from the 324 to the 640 a.C. ).
“In the period of the Second Temple, the city, with the temple in center, was a key point of the Jewish pilgrimage for everybody old one, and in the Byzantine period it attracted Christian pilgrims that followed the passages of the history of the life and the death of their Mesías”, Zelinger explains.
The person in charge of the excavation emphasizes that who constructed the Byzantine wall they did not know the existence of the previous wall and, even so raised, it indeed following the same route that the one of the period of the Second Temple due to its advantageous topographic location for the defense of the city. The state of conservation of first of the two walls, that became without using mortar and measure three meters, is “fascinating”, according to Zelinger.
The team of archaeologists also has found some `recuerdos' forgotten by its colleagues who worked century XIX there, like a shoe, the part superior of a gas lamp that used to illuminate the tunnels and several fragments of bottles of beer and came from 120 years ago.
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