Archaeological Park

Abstract

~The Jerusalem Archaeological Park, Israel?s most important antiquity site, reaches the Temple Mount on the north, the slope of the Mount of Olives and the Kidron Valley on the east, and the Valley of Hinnom on the west and the south. This area has been designated as an archaeological park and open museum. Visitors to the Park follow events spanning some 5000 years, from the Canaanite Period (Bronze Age), through the days of the Israelite monarchy in the First Temple period (Iron Age), and into the times of the Second Temple and the impressive architecture of King Herod from the second half of the1st century BC. The park also features the remains and monumental structures dating to the Crusader and Muslim periods of Jerusalem