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The key to David's city

Archaeologist believes she has found King David's palace exactly where bible says it should be.

Eilat Mazar521
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Was the Biblical figure of David a leader of the first Jewish empire, the legendary king of Jerusalem, or just some minor figure, a mere tribal chieftain? Did he even exist at all? To Eilat Mazar, scion of Israel’s most prominent family of archaeologists, the evidence she has uncovered suggests that the Bible got it right: that David, who is thought to have ruled from 1010 to 970 BCE, was indeed a larger-thanlife political and military leader – and that ancient Jerusalem was a formidable center in Biblical times.

Her main archaeological find is a mighty structure at Jerusalem’s City of David that she believes may well have been King David’s Palace when he reigned in the early part of the 10th century BCE.

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