Today another student and I visited a bit more of Jerusalem.
Photo 1: the ramparts around the Old City which date to the Crusades (1100-1200 CE).
The walls have been used for military purposes as recently as 1948 and 1967.Photo 2: A typical slit for archers - they must have been bigger than me....
Photo 3: The Damascus gate seen from inside the north side of the city.
Photo 4: Zedekiah's tunnel. Despite being named after the last King of the Judahite monarchy from 587 BCE, this actually dates to the time of the 2nd Temple, first rebuilt around 515 BCE and rebuilt again by Herod the Great in the late 1st century BCE). This site was used to excavate limestone for building in Jerusalem... It's a very big hole and runs under the Old City.
Photo 5: There is no photo 5, we're not allowed photos inside the Rockefeller Museum run by Israel's antiquities authority.
After finding that churches in the Old City are open only for services on Sunday, Michelle and I went shopping. I was offered a skirt for 170 shekels ($48) and bought two for 100
shekels total.
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