Archaeologists uncover oldest fortifications ever found in Jerusalem
Antiquities Authority says 3,700-year-old wall was built by the ancient Canaanites for protection.
By The Associated Press Tags: Jerusalem Israel newsIsraeli archaeologists say they have uncovered the oldest example of massive fortifications ever found in Jerusalem.
The Israel Antiquities Authority says the 3,700-year-old wall was built by the ancient Canaanites as a protected passage from a hilltop fortress to a spring.
Excavation director Ronny Reich says this is the first time such significant construction has been discovered from before the time of the monumental building projects of King Herod 2,000 years ago.
The 26-foot-high wall is part of the fortification that archaeologists believe protected the city's Canaanite residents from marauders. Reich said Wednesday a 79-foot section of the wall has been uncovered, and more likely remains hidden.
The wall will open to the public Thursday.
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Factually incorrect. The current inhabitants are mostly the descendants of local people who converted to Islam. Few Arabs actually moved there.
Plenty of Canaanites around in Israel and Palestine. They are Palestinians, and a few Jews -- those whose roots actually go back to the land. No Canaanites around for at least 2500 years. Read your history and your Bible. Current Palis are combination of Arab invaders and Bedouins - most by the way arrived in the past 100-200 years. Canaanites != Arabs
... enough with accomplishing nothing but misery for themselves and their followers over the last 62 years. Now you want to make them look even worse, if that's possible, by stating they're so incompetant that they've been unable to produce a State and a capital in this area for 3010 years? Time to educate yourself in the basics before you post here. This is not a humor forum!
Jerusalem's original name (before the Hebrews changed it) meant the shrine of a Canaanite god. That's of note because some zionists are now protesting Palestinians using their own variant of Hebrew place names.
Ben Jabo talks a big game, but when the put up or shut up time comes, remember that every year he refuses aliyah in favor of staying here with goys like me. He either really loves us, or he doesn't like the idea of living in a country full of Jews!
Why is it necessary to point out again that the ancient Israelites WERE themselves Canaanite? I am not aware of any historically reliable definition by which Israelite can actually be separated from Canaanite culturally or religiously. JK from Boston doesn't give us a definition from which to separate Israelite from Canaanite, so he doesn't really make much of a point when he asks for Canaanites from 1300 ago, how would we identify them? Moreover, he proceeds to use the term Jewish Nation anachronistically, the ancient Israelites (1207 BCE Mernephtah Stele) were not Jewish, unless modern Judaism is also polytheistic. Is it? Have some more from Toronto does not seem to know what nation constitutes, he seems unaware that the Israelites as a nation preceded the Judahites as a nation and historically, Jewish people are descended from Judahites, not from Israelites. I wonder whether I would be allowed to recommend Lester Grabbe's book, Ancient Israel, for those who wish to know history.
The artist's "Hand and Foot" sculpture at Mefalsim explains the psyche of poster #1 who prays to Baal "Next Year in Canaan." I'll stop off at Mefalsim and look at the sculpture on my next trip South to visit my cousin at Sderot's Kibbutz Ironi. Shalom from Steve "the historian".
You must return the Canadian land you're on to it's rightful owners
You are going to make the "chosen people" very angry though...
Does this mean Canaanites have the first claim to Jerusalem? Everyone had better start buffing up on their Ugaritic.
I am a canaanite ,I want my country back
Plenty of Canaanites around in Israel and Palestine. They are Palestinians, and a few Jews -- those whose roots actually go back to the land.
What is the exact location for those of us who want to visit?
The Jews were the only ones in history to create a nation there. Most likely in your Country, their was a people living there before.
#1 says: "that the jews were not `here` first. This land has been lived in for thousands of years before "torah" Well DUHHHH - the Torah is clear that there were Canaanites in the land preceding the Jewish Nation. I challenge you to find any Zionist (uber or not) whoever claimed Jews were the first to settle the land - their only claim is that the Jewish historical and cultural claim far precedes the Arab claim both in time and in national importance (e.g., Israel/Jerusalem was never a capital and in fact was mostly treated as a backwater during 1300 years of Islamic rule). Now if you can manage to find a group of Canaanites around then maybe they would have a historically valid claim. So what is your point?
that the jews were not 'here' first. This land has been lived in for thousands of years before "torah"
... while the revisionist Islamists would have appropriated the 3000 yr. Caananite ruins as proof of the legitimate foundations of a future Caliphate in the region.
that ancient Jerusalem had a pre-Jewish history and a post-Jewish history. Everybody knows it - except the Zionist fanaticals who insist it had an exclusively-Jewish history.