Phonecian stonework City of David

The City of David archaeological park is a maze of excavations, many of them underneath the modern community that exists there today. David’s men took Jerusalem by climbing through a water shaft. David later built a palace on the narrow ridge. Solomon expanded the city to include the Temple Mount area. In time, Hezekiah fortified the city, diverting the Gihon Spring underneath this same area. Just before the era of the New Testament, Herod the Great carried out a massive remodeling of Jerusalem. The drainage tunnel and first-century street that’s been uncovered far below ground are from that construction effort. All of the City of David is outside today’s Old City walls, just to the south of the Temple Mount.