First Temple wall found in City of David

[Ian David]

Etgar Lefkovits, THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 29, 2007

A wall from the First Temple was recently uncovered in Jerusalem's City of
David, strengthening the claim that it is the site of the palace of King
David, an Israeli archeologist said Thursday.

The new find, made by Dr. Eilat Mazar, a senior fellow at the Shalem
Center's Institute for the Archeology of the Jewish People, comes less than
two years after she said she had discovered the palace's location at the
site just outside the walls of the Old City.

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A 20-meter-long section of the 7-meter-thick wall has now been uncovered. It
indicates that the City of David once served as a major government center,
Mazar said.

Mazar estimates less than a quarter of the entire wall has been uncovered so
far, and says that it is the largest site from King David's time ever to
have been discovered.

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