By ISRAEL21c ——Bio and Archives--October 26, 2016
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Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists say they’ve found evidence of the battlefield and the breaching of the Third Wall that surrounded Jerusalem at the end of the Second Temple period.
The new finds were made during an excavation in the city center, where the new campus of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is to be built.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a tower jutting from the city wall. Opposite the tower’s western facade were scores of ballista and sling stones that they attribute to Roman forces firing from catapults towards the Jewish guards defending the wall. -- More...Support Canada Free Press
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