Photographs taken by Arthur Chrysler while working as a volunteer at the City of David excavations in 1984

Area D1 - Dr. Yigal Shiloh (top left), Eilat Mazar (top center), Donald Ariel (bottom center)

Area E1 - Middle Bronze Age wall (facing south)

Area E3 - Iron Age walls, floors and toilet

Area D2 - Hellenistic columbarium

Area G - Under construction (Last look at tumble of Phoenician Ashlars)

Area G - Tumble of Phoenician Ashlars

Area D1 (View from Hellenistic, upper ridge wall)

Area D2 - Yigal Shiloh on ridge

Area D2 (from upper ridge)

Area D2 - Hezekiah's wall meets bedrock (note cupmark uncovered by Arthur Chrysler)

Area D2 - Removing pottery

Area D1 - Dr. Yigal Shiloh (on ladder), Yair Shoham (holding meter stick)

Area D2 - Cobblestone on top of mid-slope wall (Nehemiah 12:31) See Qedem 19, Figure 11

Area D2 - (Note oven between men in forground)

Area E3 - Columbarium at bottom-right (See Qedem 19, Plate 17:1)

Area E1 - Within the line of the city-wall, the pocket in the rock in which Middle Bronze II building remains were preserved (See Qedem 19 Plate 20:2)

Areas D1 and D2 (Midslope wall finally meets Upper ridge) Nehemiah 3:19

Area D2 - Arthur Chrysler clearing Hellenistic Columbarium

View of Eastern slope from village of Silwan

Hezekiah's mid-slope wall passed over the Jebusite wall here and continued on up to the Horse Gate in Ophel (Neh. 3:26,27,28)

Kathleen Kenyon's excavations revealed this corner of the Jebusite wall (center) with Hezekiah's wall running over it (Facing north)

Hezekiah's mid-slope wall over corner of Jebusite wall (Facing South)

Area D2 - Removing pottery near standing stones

Area D2 - Clearing oven on plastered floor

Tomb T1 in the City of David

Entrance of passageway located behind the mid-slope wall. The rock-cut pool lies at the end.

1st century addition to Jebusite tunnel.

View from inside Tomb T1

Entrance of passageway leading to Jebusite tunnel above Gihon Spring

Area D1 - Dr. Shiloh above tomb T4 - (Hellenistic wall on bedrock at top of ridge)

Construction in area G

Construction near Stepped-Stone Structure

Construction near 'House of Ahiel'

House of Ahiel

Walkway under construction near 'House of Ahiel'

Southern and Northern towers on either side of Stepped-Stone Structure

View from top of tomb T1

Bedrock surrounding Gihon Spring

Restoration of the East Gate on the Temple Mount

Seam near south-east corner of the eastern wall of the Temple Mount - Herodian (left) - Hasmonean (right)

Hezekiah's 'Broad Wall' in northwest part of Jerusalem

                               

After sharing a drink of water from my canteen, these boys from Silwan had some difficulty on the crude bridge in Area E

This photo was taken in the Guy Ben Hinnom (Gehenna) valley which is located just south of the Old City of Jerusalem. The building is what the French call a “charnier” and it served as the first Crusader cemetery in the Holy Land dating back to the 12th century. / Photo Credit: Arthur Chrysler