New Excavation Dates Back to King Solomon

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Eliat Mazar, Israeli Archaeologist, is adducing excavations newly conducted date back as far as 3,000 years. This lends merit to the view that the Holy Bible is not just a long-lived story but an genuine event. She claims that the ramparts surrounding Jerusalem go as far back as King Solomon and illustrate that Jerusalem was a powerful city with a cohesive localized government. Mazar affirms that the evidence exhibits that Jerusalem had resources and manpower essential to assemble such massive fortifications.

But this detail is disputed among several scholars. Mazar thinks that Hebrew Kings like David and Solomon ruled from Jerusalem in the 10th century B.C. While other archaeologists sustain the idea that the rule under King David was just a yarn and that there wasn't a strong government during that time period. Mazar held a press conference from the University of Jerusalem and said that her find is the "most noteworthy construction we know of from First Temple days in Israel."

She feels that Solomon, King David’s son, constructed the defenses surrounding the city. These are the walls excavated. She is sure that this is the precise structure mentioned in the Book of Kings in the Bible. She also feels that this wall exhibits the power of a centralized government because of the correlations a structure of that size would necessitate.

The fortifications also comprised a gatehouse and an extended section of wall that is approximately 70 meters in length and is based immediately outside the present-day walls of Jerusalem's Old City. It is interesting to note that these ramparts are also next the Noble Sanctuary.

The Old Testament affirms that Solomon built the original Jewish Temple at this spot, but the temple was later raized by the Babylonians; then restructured and improved by King Herod about 2 millennia ago. Yet after that the Romans destroyed it in 70 A.D., so the question remains if such a large piece could really be found. At present, the area contains a pair of crucial Islamic religious buildings - the Dome of the Rock and the Al Aqsa mosque.

It isn't that Mazar was the first archaeologist to dig out the wall. It was unearthed starting in the 1860s and also in the 1980s. However, she shares that her dig was the only complete excavation and that it was the first to demonstrate strong proof of the wall's age. Remnants of pottery were charted along the wall and helped Mazar determine the wall's approximate age.

But Mazars assertions, as mentioned previously, have met with disapproval. Aren Maeir, a professor of archaeology from Bar Ilan University, wants to look at the evidence that the walls are as old as Mazar declares. He holds that there are ruins from the 10th century in Jerusalem but declarations that it was the hub of a strong centralized kingdom are a bit of a reach. While some archaeologists consider that the story of King David and Solomon is only a legend, there are others who trust it is precisely fact. And so the debate continues.

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