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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Pilgrims' Path

The 2,000-year-old inscription bearing the financial record discovered near ancient Jerusalem's Pilgrimage Path. (Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
May 17, 2023, 11:56 am
2,000-year-old ledger found in City of David points to widespread 2nd Temple literacy
Discovered near Pilgrimage Path, inscribed chalkstone slab that appears to be ossuary maker’s accounting record adds to physical evidence of ancient Jerusalem shuk in lower city
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A bronze oil lamp discovered in Budapest in 2012 (R) which matched one found in Jerusalem's City of David in May 2021 (L). (Ágnes Bakos/Bence Tihanyi; Koby Harati/City of David)
May 9, 2021, 3:05 pm
Matching half of 2,000-year-old lamp found in Jerusalem said located in Budapest
Hungarian archeologist reaches out to Israelis to say he may have found a match for the rare face-shaped piece discovered on road used by Jewish pilgrims on way to 2nd Temple
By Raoul Wootliff
A bronze oil lamp discovered in the foundations of a Roman-Era building in Jerusalem's City of David Pilgrimage Road, May 2021. (Koby Harati/City of David)
May 5, 2021, 2:32 pm
2,000-year-old oil lamp shaped like a grotesque face found in City of David
Archaeologists say the bronze item, unusual because it is only half of a lamp, was put in foundation of Roman-era building on Jerusalem’s famed Pilgrimage Road for good fortune
By Michael Bachner
The 2,000-year-old volumes measuring table, pictured here on the City of David's Pilgrims' Path. (Kobi Harati, City of David archive)
January 6, 2020, 1:31 pm
City of David archaeologists say 2,000-year-old central Jerusalem market found
Stone table top used to measure liquid volumes located in large courtyard in City of David’s Stepped Street, which archaeologists believe was the central market
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
A Roman road known as the Pilgrim's Path being excavated at the City of David archaeological site in Jerusalem, September 24, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2019, 4:01 pm
On an ancient road to the Temple, archaeological innovation, mystery and dispute
As they excavate 2,000-year-old Stepped Street under thriving Arab neighborhood, careful to avoid collapsing the homes above, are archaeologists bending, or recreating, the rules?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Visitors walk at the City of David in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan on August 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2019, 1:28 pm
US envoys to attend opening of controversial archaeological site in E. Jerusalem
After PA and Peace Now condemn participation in inauguration of historic Jewish pilgrimage road as ‘Judaization,’ Greenblatt says criticism ‘ludicrous’
By Michael Bachner
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