Archaeologists Find Battle Site Where Romans Breached Jerusalem Walls
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Subject: Archaeologists Find Battle Site Where Romans Breached Jerusalem Walls Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:33 am
Archaeologists Find Battle Site Where Romans Breached Jerusalem Walls
Israeli archaeologists found the site of a fierce battle where the Roman army bombarded and breached the walls of Jerusalem before conquering the city and destroying the Second Temple almost 2,000 years ago, officials said Thursday. They said that the discovery, made last winter during an excavation of a construction site for the new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design outside the Old City, also finally confirmed the description of the wall that was breached provided by the historian Josephus Flavius. During the dig, the archaeologists found…
Archaeologists Find Battle Site Where Romans Breached Jerusalem Walls