Is this the lost citadel of the King David who beheaded Goliath? Or is it just another attempt to extend Jewish control in East Jerusalem?
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Is this the lost citadel of the King David who beheaded Goliath? Or is it just another attempt to extend Jewish control in East Jerusalem?
Is this the lost citadel of the King David who beheaded Goliath? Or is it just another attempt to extend Jewish control in East Jerusalem?
An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem in a Palestinian area of the city.
The claim by Eli Shukron, like many such claims in the field of biblical archaeology, has been criticised for the lack of evidence supporting it. His claim joins a string of announcements by Israeli archaeologists saying they have unearthed palaces of the biblical king, who is revered in Jewish religious tradition for establishing Jerusalem as its central holy city – but who has long eluded historians looking for clear evidence of his existence.
Mr Shukron places the citadel in the midst of the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, south of the 16th-century walls of Jerusalem. Palestinian and international observers see Israeli exploration and colonisation of the Palestinian-dominated East Jerusalem as an attempt to legitimise the annexation of the territory taken from Jordan in 1967.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-this-the-lost-citadel-of-the-king-david-who-beheaded-goliath-or-is-it-just-another-attempt-to-extend-jewish-control-in-east-jerusalem-9327988.html
An Israeli archaeologist says he has found the citadel captured by King David in his conquest of Jerusalem in a Palestinian area of the city.
The claim by Eli Shukron, like many such claims in the field of biblical archaeology, has been criticised for the lack of evidence supporting it. His claim joins a string of announcements by Israeli archaeologists saying they have unearthed palaces of the biblical king, who is revered in Jewish religious tradition for establishing Jerusalem as its central holy city – but who has long eluded historians looking for clear evidence of his existence.
Mr Shukron places the citadel in the midst of the Palestinian neighbourhood of Silwan, south of the 16th-century walls of Jerusalem. Palestinian and international observers see Israeli exploration and colonisation of the Palestinian-dominated East Jerusalem as an attempt to legitimise the annexation of the territory taken from Jordan in 1967.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/is-this-the-lost-citadel-of-the-king-david-who-beheaded-goliath-or-is-it-just-another-attempt-to-extend-jewish-control-in-east-jerusalem-9327988.html
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