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Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. | The alleged Palace of David site is a large 10th century BC building in East Jerusalem whose discovery was announced on August 4, 2005 by Israeli archeaologist Eilat Mazar, who identifies it as the palace of the Biblical King David. The site is widely recognized as a major find, but the specific identification is greatly disputed. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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East Jerusalem is that part of Jerusalem which was held by Jordan from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War until the Six-Day War in 1967. ...
August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ...
The quintessential medieval European palace: Palais de la Cité, in Paris, the royal palace of France. ...
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The research was funded by a conservative group seeking to confirm aspects of Biblical history, which has led to the skepticism of some archaeologists of the sensational claim of identification, a common criticism of the Biblical archaeology approach. One possibility suggested by other archaeologists is that the site may be the Jebusite fortress of Zion that was conquered by David. Biblical archaeology involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the period described in the Bible. ...
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Zion or Tzion (צִיּוֹן Height, Standard Hebrew Ẓiyyon, Tiberian Hebrew Ṣiyyôn; Arabic صهيون Ṣuhyūn) originally was the specific name given to a Jebusite fortress near modern-day Jerusalem that was conquered by David. ...
One notable find at the site is the discovery of a seal of the government official Jehucal, son of Shelemiah, son of Shevi, a figure mentioned twice in the Book of Jeremiah. Seal on envelope A seal is an impression printed on, embossed upon, or affixed to a document (or any other object) in order to authenticate it, in lieu of or in addition to a signature. ...
The Book of Jeremiah, or Jeremiah (יִרְמְיָהוּ Yirmiyahu in Hebrew), is a book that is part of the Hebrew Bible, Judaisms Tanakh, and later became a part of Christianitys Old Testament. ...
The site was dated by the different types of pottery found above and below the building foundations. The layer below has pottery from Iron Age I, while the layer above has pottery from Iron Age II. The history of pottery in Palestine starts in Neolithic times, around the 8th millennium BC, when the art of pottery was introduced into the region. ...
The law of superposition is an axiom that forms one of the bases of the sciences of geology, archaeology, and other fields dealing with geological stratigraphy. ...
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The archaeology of Israel is a national passion that also attracts considerable international interest on account of the regions Biblical links. ...
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