Dec 3, 2007 / 09:45 am
A team of archaeologists in Jerusalem claims to have discovered part of a wall described in the book of Nehemiah.
The discovery in Jerusalem's ancient City of David resulted from a rescue to save a tower in danger of collapsing.
The leader of the dig was Eilat Mazar, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem-based research and educational institute. According to Mazar, artifacts including pottery shards and arrowheads found under the tower suggested the tower and the nearby wall were from the 5th century, B.C., the time of Nehemiah.
Scholars previously dated the wall to the 2nd century B.C.