1137. JERUSALEM CARDO – IN LATER YEARS THE CARDO WAS RECONSTRUCTED, THE GREAT PILLARS WITH THEIR CAPITALS WERE PUT IN PLACE AS WELL AS THE ORIGINAL PAVING STONES

1138. JERUSALEM CARDO – REMAINS OF BYZANTINE SHOPS LOCATED ALONG THE CARDO

1139. JERUSALEM CARDO – ORIGINAL PAVING STONES OF THE CARDO WERE FOUND IN SITU, IN SOME PLACES BEARING WHEEL MARKS, WITNESS TO BYZANTINE STYLE TRAFIC

1140. JERUSALEM CARDO – THE FIRST STAGES OF ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT THE END OF WHICH THE CARDO WAS REVEALED

1403. THE JERUSALEM CITADEL, ‘SULEIMAN’S GATE’, BUILT BY THE TURKS IN THE 16TH. C. IT SERVES AS THE EASTERN ENTRANCE TO THE CITADEL COMPOUND

167. PART OF THE WALL ENCLOSING JERUSALEM BUILT IN THE 8TH C. B.C. BY KING HEZEKIAH TO PROTECT THE CITY FROM THE INVADING ASSYRIANS

1716. THE JERUSALEM CARDO, ORIGINALLY BUILT BY THE ROMANS AS THE CENTRAL STREET OF THE CITY. THIS PART WAS RECONSTRUCTED BY THE CRUSADERS (10-12TH. C.). TODAY IT IS A SHOPPING MALL IN THE JEWISH QUARTER

5291-Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem. The begining of the archeological excavations in 1972. The excavations revealed the rich material cultural life in Herod’s Jerusalem and the destruction of the city by the romans.

796. ARCHEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF HASMONEAN BUILDINGS IN THE JERUSALEM CITADEL (FRONT OF THE PICTURE)

914. JERUSALEM, THE TOWER OF’ FAZAEL’, REMAINS OF ONE OF THE THREE TOWERS BUILT BY KING HORDUS, AS PART OF HIS PALACE IN JERUSALEM

973. THE MASSIVE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEA CHURCH, ONE OF THE LARGEST CHURCHES IN 4TH. C. JERUSALEM, BUILT BY JUSTINIAN

981. JERUSALEM, THE DAMASKUS GATE; BOTTOM LEFT: PART OF THE TRI-PARTITE ROMAN GATE, THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO ROMAN JERUSALEM FROM THE WEST TOP RIGHT: THE OTTOMAN GATE BUILT IN THE 16TH. C.