Introduction

Introducton * 12 importance of old photographs and drawings in general for the study of archaeological sites and then pursues in detail four visual representations of the pool . His analysis of these sources, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, cross - referenced with past scholarly descriptions of the pool, provides an important tool in reconstructing its appearance, possible chronology and changes over the generations . In contrast, the archaeological method employed by Solomon and Barbe is a classic one . In their excavations of the secret passage that is part of the tunnels associated with the Western Wall Tunnel, pottery has recently been discovered that allows the excavators to propose a new dating for the barrel vault roofing the secret passage – from the Abbasid to the early Fatimid periods . Their article sheds light on the development of the urban fabric of Jerusalem in these historical periods . Dr . Eyal Meiron Volume editor Introduction * 11 staircase alongside it...  אל הספר