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On December 3rd, 1969, Archeologist Nahman Avigad released the first report from the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s excavations that began shortly after the Six-Day War and the reunification of Israel’s capital. The 1969 report was only the beginning of a fourteen-year mammoth excavation project that would be led by Nahman; yet was enough to reconstruct at least 900 years of Jewish history in the city of Jerusalem.
Read more: This Day In History: Post 1967 Excavations Reveal Ancient Jewish Presence In Jerusalem