Q: Why did you want to excavate here, in this part of Jerusalem? Eilat Mazar: We started excavations here because we wanted to examine the possibility that the remains of King David's palace are here.

On the heels of Mazar's claim to have discovered King David's palace, two other archaeologists have unveiled remarkable finds. Twenty miles southwest of Jerusalem in the Elah Valley—the very ...

The summit palace could be seen by Herod's subjects in Jerusalem, while the tallest ... of Absalom—named after the rebellious son of King David, but likely the tomb of the Judean King Alexander ...

At the time, the moat physically separated the southern residential part of the city (the City of David) from the upper city — the Temple Mount area — where the palace and First Temple stood.

The ancient city was the birthplace of Jerusalem and built by King David to unite Israel around ... the upper city where the ...

This is the conclusion of Simonds’ journal of the Orlando delegation of the JLI-Land and Spirit trip to Israel. City of David – A walking tour of the area that was the palace for King David, and then ...

I imagine it would have gone down a little like this . . . Jerusalem News ... He continued, “David is a king, not a priest. We don’t need a holy man in the palace. We need a warrior and ...