Initially known as the Upper City or Zion, it endured the Roman occupation following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, becoming a government center under the Tenth Roman Legion. The Quarter’s ...

2,000-year-old ‘Redemption of Zion’ coin reveals turmoil before Jerusalem’s destruction Bronze coin minted in the fourth year of the Jewish Great Revolt against the Romans found by archaeologists ...

Ariel D.T. and Shoham Y. 2000. Locally Stamped Handles and Associated Body Fragments of the Persian and Hellenistic periods. In D.T. Ariel ed. Excavations at the City of David 1978–1985 Directed by ...

JERUSALEM, Israel – In the presence of the former president of Israel Shimon Peres, and hundreds of friends and supporters from around the world, the Friends of Zion Museum was officially launched in ...

A salvage excavation on the southern part of Mount Zion uncovered building remains dating from the Byzantine period. A bilingual Greek-Georgian mosaic inscription was discovered in one of the rooms of ...