Jim riporta la notizia della BBC relativa alla scoperta di porzioni della mura di Gerusalemme databili a circa duemila anni fa:

1. They say the mortarless stone structure is the best preserved section of the city's walls ever seen from the period of the Second Jewish Temple... "We knew the walls were here somewhere," said Yehiel Zelinger, who has led the excavation on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority. "The fact that after 2,100 years the remains of the wall were preserved to a height of three meters is amazing," he said.
   

Sono venuti alla luce anche altri oggetti:

1. The researchers also found a range of artefacts from before and after the Second Temple period, including female fertility figures from the early Israelites who, according to the Bible, were prohibited from worshipping idols. And, above the ancient walls, they also uncovered a second wall, built 400 years later by the Byzantines.
   

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