Jerusalem City of David archaeological work

The Jerusalem that David, Solomon, and other kings of Judah knew was far different than the one we see today. David’s Jerusalem was very small and located outside the walls of today’s Old City. It was perched between the Kidron Valley on its east and the Central Valley on the west. Herod the Great remodeled Jerusalem a few decades before Jesus lived, filling in the Central Valley with debris, stones and dirt. Today, archaeologists are digging underneath a modern community and discovering ruins that once were part of the small town before David arrived, and while he lived in the city. This video shows some of the archaeological work in this “City of David.” Toward the end of the video, the ruins just to the south of the Temple Mount come from the time period of Solomon and later eras. Many of those ruins date to the time period of Jesus and the New Testament. The Islamic mosque and gold-covered Dome of the Rock were built more than 600 years after Jesus lived.