The main body of the book then follows the successive periods in Jerusalem’s history uncovered by modern archaeology: the Jebusite period a thousand years before the start of the Common Era ...
Layers from nearly every era of the city’s history lay on top ... of each other is like an open book, the whole historical and archaeological sequence of Jerusalem laid out in front of our ...
Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Amotz Asa-El, The Jerusalem ... El's previous book, The Diaspora and the Lost Tribes of Israel (Universe, 2004), a geographic history of the Jews ...