Important Discoveries in the City of David New discoveries during the excavation of the City of David at Jerusalem are described by Professor R. A. S. Macalister (who is working under the auspices of the Palestine Exploration Fund and the "Daily Telegraph").
One of these discoveries, says the Professor in a dispatch from Jerusalem, carries back the history of the city in all probability at least 500 years behind the farthest point hitherto attained.
This is the section of a great trench, Only on the north side, goes on the Professor, was Jerusalem vulnerable to the assaults of primitive warfare. The steep valleys east and west of the ridge protected it effectively; the me habitants acknowledged the protection thus afforded them by ondeavouring to cut an artificial valley on the north side.
This is our reading of the entirely unexpected discovery with which we have been favoured.
We can hardly allow less than 1500 years as the term of usefulness of @ work so extensive. I should scarcely hesitate to assign a date near to 3,000 B.C.
There are broken steps now cleared of soil that has cumbered them since the time of Abraham. I ven-"ture to claim that those broken steps are a record of a previously unknown siege of Jerusalem.
Another important discovery is a gigantic bastion, unquestionably part of a great city wall, previously undiscovered. Tt was about 20ft, thick." have no doubt that it was the Sebusite outer wall, and in all pro-Lability the bastion which we have unearthed was the very spot from which the Jebusites taunted David with his inability to take the city.
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