JERUSALEM — A wall mentioned in the Bible ... the tower and the nearby wall are from the 5th century B.C., the time of Nehemiah, Mazar said, which suggests that the structure was part of ...

516 B.C. — King Cyrus allowed Jews to return to Jerusalem to rebuild. The Jews built the Second Temple. 445-425 B.C. — Nehemiah the Prophet rebuilt the walls of the city. 332 B.C ...

Israeli archaeologists invest significant time and resources to exploring the ancient city, which helps provide evidence for ancient stories and claims about Jerusalem that many have otherwise ...

The discovery, made in Jerusalem's ancient City of David ... tower and the nearby wall are from the 5th century B.C., the time of Nehemiah, according to Mazar. Scholars previously thought the ...

JERUSALEM — Jewish revelers in a Purim parade ... This spring, for the first time in three decades, Ramadan, Easter and Purim — holidays in Islam, Christianity and Judaism — all overlapped ...

The excavation efforts also led to the discovery of a coin from 67/68 CE, during the first Jewish revolt against the Roman occupying forces. A long section of the Upper Aqueduct to Jerusalem was ...

A European priest looks 1,500 years into the past and imagines the Holy City at the birth of Christianity. This 1584 map of Jerusalem, made by a European priest who never visited the city ...