💍A perfectly preserved gemstone-studded ring, dating back to the end of the Second Temple period.💍
The ring was discovered along the City of David National Park's Pilgrimage Road
#Excavation
, within a structure identified as a Mikveh (ritual bath).
📸 Koby Harati, CoD Archive
Happy
#InternationalDayOfYoga
from
#excavator
Megan & Sophie - volunteer excavator all the way from the USA!
#Namaste
🧘
❤️The City of David - the place where Jerusalem began
📸Givati Parking Lot Excavation, City of David
New Discovery Alert!! An 11-year-old Girl Found a Rare Silver 2000-Year-Old Coin May Have Been Minted in the Temple as part of the Jewish Revolt Against the Romans. On one side is a inscription of a cup with the caption: "Israeli shekel"
Credit: Eliyahu Yanai
🚨Missing part of ancient First Temple Period Jerusalem Wall has been found!🚨
The Excavation⛏️ has exposed the missing section of the ancient city wall of Jerusalem that the Babylonians encountered on the eve of its destruction on Tisha B'Av, in 586 BCE.🔥
In honor of
#Hanukkah
- the
#CityofDavid
lit a menorah like you have never seen before!🕎It is a menorah made up of authentic antique
#lamps
thousands of years old! Watch them be relit where the story of Hanukkah actually happened.
#ShareTheLight
🪔
THREAD >>>
This is the Cyrus Cylinder. In one of the most significant finds in the 19th century - the Cyrus Cylinder represents a confirmation of the
#biblical
account in the book of Ezra.📜
This tiny golden bell was lost in
#Jerusalem
2,000 years ago during the Second Temple Period and was discovered in the City of David. It is believed to have possibly fallen from the robe of the Temple High Priest, which the Bible tells us was adorned with golden bells.
👑In a stunning find, Dr. Eilat Mazar z”l uncovered this seal with
#KingHezekiahs
name on it - irrefutable proof of the famous biblical king’s existence. This is the first seal impression of a Judean king to come to light in a scientific archaeological excavation.👑
It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman!
#FlashbackFriday
to the super visit of
@RealDeanCain
at the City of David. Happy
#SupermanDay
🦸♂️, Dean!
Shabbat Shalom from the City of David 🤠
📹City of David Archives
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night, they shall never be silent; those who remind the Lord, be not silent.
(Isaiah 62:6)
Chag Sameach & Shabbat Shalom, friends! 😍
🎨The City of David at the start of the First Temple
(Leonardo Gurevich)
⏳A Tale of Two
#Coins
- 2000 years apart!🤯
👉On the right is a
#Judea
Capta coin from 2000 years ago - the words written on it saying “Judea conquered."
👈On the left is the new coin minted in 1948, to commemorate
#Israel
's reestablishment!
>>>Thread🧵
Today we commemorate
#TishaBAv
- the day on which we remember the destruction of the First and the Second Temple in
#Jerusalem
. 😔These artifacts unearthed have been buried beneath the earth for 2,600 years, since the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem in 586 BCE.
🚨Evidence of Biblical Earthquake 🚨 Excavations conducted by the IAA at the City of David have exposed destruction in
#Jerusalem
from an earthquake dated to the 8th century BCE - in line with the biblical reference to the massive
#earthquake
mentioned in the days of King Uzziah.
THREAD>>
📜 The Oldest Surviving Text from the
#Bible
📜🤯
🥈Older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, what you are looking at are the Silver Scrolls of Ketef Hinnom..surviving text from the Book of Numbers known as the 🖖Priestly Blessing -🖖 dating to the 7th to 6th BCE!
🚨
#ICYM
!!🚨 NEW discovery from the Days of the First Temple - 🚽A 2,700 Year Old Toilet!🚽
What is the big deal about an old toilet you may ask? Everyone had a toilet, right?! >>>
THREAD🚨New Discovery Alert!!🚨 From the Days of the Second Temple🏛️ - 💎The First Depiction of the famous Balm of Gilead on 2000-Year-Old Amethyst - the Incense of Cleopatra and the Second Temple💎>>>
📸Eliyahu Yanai,
#CityofDavid
Archive
Gedaliah Ben Pashhur was 1 of the ministers who plotted to kill the Prophet, Jeremiah. What you are looking at is the first seal which belonged to Gedaliah Ben Pashhur. The second was Yehuchal ben Shelemayahu. Both are mentioned in the book Jeremiah in exactly the same verse 38:1
1/2 🚨New
#Discovery
Alert!!🚨
From the Days of the First Temple - An extremely rare find of
#biblical
weight called a gerah was discovered in the sifting project at Emek Tzurim!🏛️ >>>
📸 Eliyahu Yanai, City of David
A rare clay seal found under Jerusalem's Old City appears to be linked to religious rituals practiced at the Jewish Temple 2,000 years ago.😱
The coin-sized seal found near the Jewish holy site at the Western Wall bears two Aramaic words meaning "pure for God." 😇🙏
The 2,600-year-old Natan-Melech Seal - mentioned in the Bible (II Kings 23:11) as a royal official in the court of King Josiah - discovered in the Givati Parking Lot Excavation.
Can you decipher what is written in ancient Hebrew? 🕵️
📸Eliyahu Yanai, CoD archive
🚨First Temple-era artifact used to measure two-shekalim🚨
Adjacent to the Western Wall of the Temple Mt. in
#Jerusalem
. The weight, corresponding to the known measurement unit of 2 shekels, was retrieved during sifting of earthen fills by the City of David sifting project.
#TBT
THREAD This tiny golden bell was lost in
#Jerusalem
2,000 years ago during the Second Temple Period and was discovered in the City of David. It is believed to have possibly fallen from the robe of the Temple High Priest, which the Bible tells us was adorned with golden bells
Discovered in the excavation of the 2,000-year-old Drainage Channel in the City of David, this stone tablet with an engraved depiction of a menorah- an iconic symbol of the Jewish people - was discovered just footsteps from the Temple Mount, where the actual menorah stood.
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This tiny golden bell was lost in
#Jerusalem
2,000 years ago during the Second Temple Period and was discovered in the City of David. It is believed to have possibly fallen from the robe of the Temple High Priest, which the Bible tells us was adorned with golden bells.
720 BCE The Assyrian army was advancing to
#Jerusalem
King Hezekiah gathered his citizens and launched a plan that would save his kingdom. The Kingdom was saved by the miners, who hand-dug an underground tunnel of over 1700 feet to divert the waters of the
#GihonSpring
#MinersDay
Rebuilding the
#SecondTemple
Period and the Second Temple...in miniature!🤯
Recreating Jerusalem’s past in tiny, precise details is tricky work!🕵
Which time period would you pick to walk around in- First Temple or Second Temple? 👇Let us know!
📸Eliyahu Yanai, Koby Harati, COD
💎 It’s
#JewelDay
💎!!
A perfectly preserved gemstone-studded ring, dating back to the end of the Second Temple period
The ring was discovered along the
#CityofDavid
National Park's
#PilgrimageRoad
Excavation, within a structure identified as a Mikveh (ritual bath).
🚨NEW Discovery🚨 The gem seal, depicting a portrait of Apollo was discovered in the City of David's Drainage Channel adjacent to the Temple Mt.
This surprising and rare find is the third secured gem seal from the Second Temple period to have ever been discovered in
#Jerusalem
🪔
#Hanukkah
Discovery!!!🪔
A 2,000-year-old oil lamp, dated to the time of the Hasmoneans, discovered completely intact in the Pilgrimage Road Excavation in the
#CityofDavid
.
#HappyChanukah
!!!
📹Gil Mezuman, CoD archive
The magnificent
#KidronValley
. 3,000 years ago it was surrounded by the
#MountofOlives
, the
#TempleMount
, and the
#CityofDavid
.
Today it is surrounded by the Mount of Olives, the Temple Mount, and the City of David. Ancient Jerusalem Endures.
Shavua Tov, friends! ☺️
📹Hexa
THREAD >> This is the second of the two seals discovered bearing the names of the ministers who plotted to kill the Prophet Jeremiah.🗡️
This seal belonged to Yehuchal ben Shelemayahu. Both Yehucal and Gedaliah are mentioned in the book Jeremiah in exactly the same verse 38:1!🤯
🚨 Historic NEW discovery! 🚨
Magnificent & rare remains of a royal structure from the time of the Kings of Judah have just been discovered in an excavation near
@City_Of_David
by the Israel Antiquities Authority.
📹 Yaniv Berman,
@AntiquitiesIL
🚨New Discovery in the Givati Parking Lot Excavation: Scientists have discovered the earth's magnetic field🧲 from the 9th of Av, 586 BCE – revealing the immensity of the destruction of
#Jerusalem
by the Babylonians🚨
📹Tadmit, Courtesy of
@TelAvivUni
The stone artifacts that were discovered are made of soft limestone, with decorative carvings, and among them are capitals of various sizes in the architectural style known as 'Proto-Aeolian' - one of the most significant royal building features of the First Temple period.
May the LORD bless you from Zion; may you share the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life, and live to see your children’s children. Peace be upon Israel!
Psalms 128:5-6
Shabbat Shalom, friends! ♥️
🎨First Temple Period, City of David
(Balage Balogh, CoD Archive)
Discovered in the excavation of the 2,000-year-old Drainage Channel in the
#CityofDavid
, this stone tablet with an engraved depiction of a
#menorah
- an iconic symbol of the
#Jewish
people - was discovered just footsteps from the Temple Mount, where the actual menorah stood.
#Throwback
2012: The 1st archeological evidence of Biblical-era
#Bethlehem
was found on a clay seal bearing the name Bethlehem in ancient Hebrew. The seal was discovered in the excavation of Biblical-era rooms in the City of David.
“In the seventh year, Bethlehem, of the King"
THREAD >>>
👑Rare Seal from King David’s Period Revealed in Dirt from the
#TempleMount
👑
A 3000-year-old seal was found in the City of David Sifting Project at Emek Tzurim. This seal dates to King David’s time!
An incredible discovery made in 2013 - this medallion, discovered by Dr. Mazar, may have been used as ornamentation for a
#Torah
scroll. It is emblazoned with a seven-branch
#menorah
, a Torah scroll, and a shofar.
📸Ouria Tadmor, (C) Dr. Eilat Mazar
THREAD
🚨
#ICYMI
: NEW DISCOVERY 🚨
The exposed section of the First Temple-era protective wall on Jerusalem’s eastern perimeter. (Koby Harati/ City of David
And the streets of the city shall be filled, with boys and girls playing in its streets. (Zechariah 8:5)
#ShabbatShalom
, friends! 🥇
📸
@Jlm_city
,
#Jerusalem
Marathon 2021 🏃🏻♀️🏃🏻♂️
People from all around the world, come together to talk about what they love most about the magnificent city of Jerusalem.
What do you love most about Jerusalem?
Let us know in the comments below!
Credit: Asaf Peri, COD Archive
💍Watch
#archaeologist
Helene Machline recount her most exciting moments digging up ancient
#Jerusalem
at the City of David.⚒️
📹Gil Mezuman, COD Archive; 📸 Koby Harati
🚨New Discovery Alert!🚨 The Jerusalem Elite 2600 Years Ago Preferred Wine with Touches of Vanilla 🍷🤯
Researchers from
#TelAvivUniversity
and the
#IsraelAntiquitiesAuthority
examined jars found in the City of David and were surprised to find vanilla in wine from 2600 years ago!
In preparation for
#RoshHashanah
, here is an incredible discovery made in 2013 - this medallion, discovered by Dr. Mazar, may have been used as ornamentation for a Torah scroll. It is emblazoned with a seven branch menorah, a Torah scroll, and a shofar, and a ram’s horn.
Today we celebrate
#TuBishvat
, the New Year of the Trees
The City of David is home to various types of trees, many of which grew in
#AncientJerusalem
during the 1st and 2nd Temple Periods,just one of the many ways that
#CityofDavid
makes the past, present and future come to life.
🤩Look at this incredible stone table fragment from the end of the Second Temple Period! It was discovered at the City of David's Pilgrimage Road Excavation.
📸Koby Harati, CoD Archive
THREAD
👑Seal of Natan Melech - Servant of the King👑
Natan Melech was the servant to which King - you guessed it - King Josiah - the king that led the religious reforms in the
#Kingdom
of Judah.🕊️>>>
📸: Eliyahu Yanai, COD Archive
What do our latest discovery and the 5 shekel coin have in common?🧐
Proto-Ionic Capitals represent the Ancient Kingdoms of Judah and
#Israel
, which led the Bank of Israel to choose it as the image that adorns the five shekel coin of the modern-day State of Israel.
“When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars...
What is man that You are mindful of him,
the son of man that You care for him?
Yet You made him a little lower than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honour."
#psalms
Year 2 coin embedded into the Pilgrimage Road from the moment of destruction in 70 CE.
Minted in 68 CE by the Jewish freedom fighters as an act of rebellion against the Roman army, the coin was left behind by the last remaining Jews fleeing
#Jerusalem
as it was destroyed.
1/2
#ICYMI
🪔NEW
#Hanukkah
Discovery!!!🪔
A 2,000-year-old oil lamp, dated to the time of the Hasmoneans, discovered completely intact in the Pilgrimage Road Excavation in the
#CityofDavid
.
📸Koby Harati, City of David Archive
Rebuilding the
#FirstTemple
Period and Solomon’s Temple...in miniature!🤯
Recreating Jerusalem’s past in tiny, precise details is tricky work!🕵
Which time period would you pick to walk around in- First Temple or Second Temple? 👇Let us know!
📸Eliyahu Yanai, Koby Harati, COD
"May the Lord bless you from Zion, and see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life." (Psalms 128:5)
🌸Shabbat Shalom, friends!🌸
📸 Koby Harati,
#CityofDavid
Archive
720 BCE The Assyrian army was advancing to
#Jerusalem
#KingHezekiah
gathered his citizens and launched a plan that would save his kingdom. The Kingdom was saved by the miners, who hand-dug an underground tunnel of over 1700 feet to divert the waters of the
#GihonSpring
💍A perfectly preserved gemstone-studded ring, dating back to the end of the Second Temple period.💍
The ring was discovered along the City of David National Park's Pilgrimage Road
#Excavation
, within a structure identified as a Mikveh (ritual bath).
📸 Koby Harati, CoD Archive
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. (Psalms 137:5-6)
#ShabbatShalom
, friends! 💙
🎨
#CityofDavid
, First Temple period
(Leonardo Gurevich, City of David Archive)
Look familiar? Past and present merge again!⏳
🏛️ This kind of column is known as a Proto-Aeolic Capital - a style typical to the Phonecian empire in the north.
But what is a Phonecian style capital doing in Jerusalem?🤔
>>>Thread🧵
📸Yonit Schiller, COD Archive
The City of David shares in the grief of the families of those killed and wishes a full recovery for those injured in the Shabbat events in Jerusalem.
The City of David continues to open its doors to the millions of visitors and tourists.
2/2 But there is a twist! This was a weight used by a cheater!!🤥 It weighs three times as much as it is labeled!⚖️ This evidence of cheating dates around the time period of 589 BCE!
🗞 Learn more here:
📸 Eliyahu Yanai, CoD
1/2 ⏳Half a Shekel - 2000 years apart!🤯
👉On the right is a half shekel coin from 2000 years ago - discovered in the City of David Sifting Project. On it is written “Holy Jerusalem” in Hebrew on one side of the coin, while the words “Half Shekel” appear on the other.
As 2023 is less than a week away, we want to spend these next few days highlighting the fantastic finds, excavations, stories, and more than 2022 had to offer!!
Do You Plan On Visiting The City Of David In 2023?🥰⏳
#THREAD
The
#TempleMount
, renovated in the first century BCE, is surrounded by four large retaining walls, the most famous of which is the
#WesternWall
. >>>
🤩A perfectly preserved gemstone-studded ring, dating back to the end of the Second Temple period🤩
The ring was discovered along the City of David National Park's Pilgrimage Road Excavation, within a structure identified as a Mikveh (ritual bath).
📸 Koby Harati, CoD Archive
The City Of David has found a rare and prestigious collection of decorated Ivories from The First Temple Period! 😱😱
These fine items were apparently inlaid in a couch-throne placed in a palatial structure 🛕
The Siloam Inscription recounts the dramatic meeting of the two groups of diggers, each digging toward one another, to create the tunnel that would allow water to flow from the Gihon Spring to the Shiloah Pool, saving
#Jerusalem
from the Assyrian siege 2,700 years ago.
THREAD The City of David mourns the untimely death of
#archaeologist
Dr. Eilat Mazar who contributed greatly to the study of the City of David and
#Jerusalem
and left a significant mark on understanding the history of the city.
רפרודוקציה: קובי הראתי, עיר דוד
Another exciting year at the City of David! >>>
#TBT
to some of our
#archaelogical
discoveries from 2020
We look forward to hosting you in
#NewYear2021
! 🤠
The 10 days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur are known as the Ten Days of Repentance. May the 10 days of repentance bring clarity to all. ❤️
"May the Lord bless you from Zion, and see the good via Jerusalem all the days of your life."
- Psalms 128:5
🚨 NEW discovery!🚨
“Lucky” Bronze Oil Lamp Found in the City of David.
#Archeologist
Ari Levy of the
@AntiquitiesIL
uncovered a rare “lucky” bronze oil lamp shaped like a face cut in half, dating from the
#Roman
period (after 70 CE) in the City of David
@EnesKanter
,
Mazal Tov on being one of the 2021
Top 50 Pro-Israel Influencers!!
Looking forward to hosting you at the
@cityofdavid
in the near future! 🇮🇱💙
There is a concept in
#Hebrew
called - Hachnasat or'chim, which roughly translates to “welcoming guests.”🏕️
The value of hosting and cherishing having guests in the Jewish tradition is something that goes back thousands of years - even to the time of Abraham.⛺
END OF THREAD >>>
Unlike the rulers of
#Babylon
, who reeked destruction, exile, and death upon every conquered nation, 👑King Cyrus of the
#Persian
Empire restored each nation to their respective homeland - the Jews included.
📸 David Vaknin
🔥As you sit around your Lag B'Omer bonfire today, remember the history behind the BBQs! 🔥
Here at The City of David, we discovered a rare bronze coin from the period of the Bar Kochba Revolt (around 132 CE). 🪙
📸Koby Harati, COD Archive
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.
(Psalms 137:5-6)
#ShabbatShalom
, friends! ♥️
🎨
#CityofDavid
, First Temple period
(Leonardo Gurevich, CoD archives)
#10thofTevet
Psalm 19:1🎶
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Enjoy this shot of Gai Ben Hinnom’s waterfall!
Shabbat Shalom!⛲
📷Koby Harati, COD Archive
#cityofdavid
#shabbatshalom
Ever wish you could recreate Ancient Jerusalem out of
#LEGO
?
@LEGO_Group
🤯
The incredible artist
@rjbuttlier
- Rocco Buttliere did just that! Be sure to check out his page for more of his incredible work!
🎨Rocco Buttliere -
@rjbuttlier
Trust in the Lord and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture
(Psalm 37: 1-3)
Enjoy this shot of a gorgeous sunrise over Gai ben Hinnom! Shabbat Shalom!
Image: Iti Nachman, COD Archive
#ElectronicGreetingsDay
3,000 years ago communication involved clay seals used to secure messages.
Check out this Biblical seal found in excavations in the
#CityofDavid
, inscribed with the name “Natan Melech, Servant of the King.”
Our hearts and prayers are with the victims of the terrible tragedy that took place last night in Mt. Meron. May their memory be a blessing. 🕯
Wishing a speedy recovery to all of the injured. 🧡
Our amazing
#excavators
and
#archaeologists
working hard in the Givat Parking Lot Excavation at the City of David - the place where
#Jerusalem
began!
Thank you, team! 🤠
📸:Yariv Nadav, City of David Archive
🏅Gold Medallion🏅
1/2
#DidYouKnow
that you are looking at what may be the oldest
#Torah
ornament ever found.📜 This incredible discovery was made in 2013 by Dr. Eilat Mazar z”l.
📸Ouria Tadmor, (C) Dr. Eilat Mazar
When the King of Persia defeated Babylon and became the new empire of the Middle East, King Cyrus instituted new, more benevolent policies to the people he conquered. Instead of the Bayblonian policy of exile, King Cyrus allowed various peoples in the region to return home - >>>