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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Israel Finkelstein] And what's interesting here, all these talks that, you know -- because we are in Jerusalem, monuments could have been simply eradicated by later builders, robbed, and sold, and so forth -- here we see that it is impossible. When you have a monument like this, something remains.
[Ronny Reich, University of Haifa] Any big building from any period of time, whether destroyed by nature or destroyed by men, in one way or another [you'll find] parts standing and parts in a state of collapse. You must find something.
[Narrator] Like David's Jerusalem, Solomon's capital was an insignificant village. But what about the rest of the KINGDOM?
In the 1960's, the archaeologist Yigael Yadin
undertook excavations in Megiddo,
one of our books of stone
Megiddo, Israel
Before him, in the 1920s and 30s, the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago had already carried out a THOROUGH CAMPAIGN of excavations,
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