The Many Awesome Revelations of Jerusalem's Recently Discovered Pilgrim's Road: The Seeds of America Were Planted in Israel

Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz : Jul 2, 2019
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"Americans understand that the foundations the United States are built upon are the Judeo-Christian heritage with its roots in Jerusalem. The City of David is not simply a Jewish or Israeli heritage site but it is, in fact, an American heritage site as well in the same way Valley Forge is American. We see ourselves as the stewards, not just for the Jewish people, but for all people." -Zeev Orenstein, Director for International Affairs for the City of David

(Israel) — [Breakingisraelnews.com] On Sunday, the City of David hosted the event opening the Pilgrim's Road, the stairway archaeologists believe was the main thoroughfare for pilgrims ascending to the Temple Mount. Originally constructed to ascend from the Shiloh Pool to the Temple, the stairway was hidden, buried under a potato field. Hints of the existence of the City of David were first discovered by Captain Charles Warren, one of the earliest European archaeologists of the Biblical Holy Land. (Image: From Yoav Dothan's photo of the road ascending toward the Temple Mount, on the ancient Jerusalem pilgrim road that was used by pilgrims ascending from the Pool of Siloam to the Temple Mount via the Hulda Gates in the Southern Wall/Wikipedia/via Times of Israel)

In 1867, Warren conducted the first major excavations of Jerusalem's Temple Mount. He discovered a hidden passage to Jerusalem's Biblical water source, the Gihon Spring. He discovered artifacts that predated those found inside the walls of the Old City by thousands of years, leading him to opine that the original City of Jerusalem actually lay to the south of Temple Mount and the Old City. Extensive archaeological work at the site has since confirmed his theory... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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