WATCH: City of David Excavation Reveals Massive Hasmonean Period Wall

Workers at an excavation at the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem’s Old City, where an impressive section of the city’s Hasmonean wall was uncovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation, December 8, 2025. (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) (Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Archaeologists have revealed a remarkably well-preserved, 5-meter-wide Hasmonean city wall beneath the Tower of David, offering rare evidence of ancient siege warfare and Jerusalem’s shifting political landscape.

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