July
14
/ 2021
The remains of a spectacular banquet hall from the Second Temple period in Jerusalem were unveiled by archaeologists as they announced that the site will soon be opened to the public for the first time. Said to be one of the most impressive sites in the Old City of Jerusalem, this roughly 2,000-year-old banquet hall will be part of a new Western Wall Tunnels Tour which has been created by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation in Israel. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"87879","attributes":{"alt":"Dr. Shlomit Weksler-Bdolach, the director of the excavations in the Western Wall Tunnels, presenting the newly unveiled banquet hall. (Yaniv Berman / Israel Antiquities Authority)","class":"media-image","style":"width: 610px; height: 382px;","typeof":"foaf:Image"}}]] Dr. Shlomit Weksler-Bdolach, the director of the excavations in the Western Wall Tunnels, presenting the
