an important financial record was recorded on a much heavier material: stone. Archaeologists found the inscribed proof-of-purchase at the archaeological site of the City of David in Jerusalem.

Documentary filmmaker Danae Elon’s new film 'Rule of Stone' explores the history behind Jerusalem’s architecture.

Every elevation, every angle, and every stone was designed with ... transitions from one realm to another. The materials reflect this intent: honed Jerusalem limestone, brushed bronze, warm ...

During the Palestine Mandate period, Britain enforced this decree in the knowledge that Jerusalem stone, an organic material meticulously cut from local quarries by seasoned masons, captures the ...

During excavations on the outskirts of Jerusalem in 2020, archaeologists were surprised to find a stone capital — the ... to serve as useful building material here, in secondary usage.” ...

Why, for example, is the deliciously pristine, white Jerusalem stone the “official” building material of the city? The idea came from Sir Ronald Storrs, the first British military governor of ...

(JNS) Pristine white trousers and a crisply ironed linen shirt may not seem like the appropriate work attire at a construction site. But architect Etan Kimmel of Kimmel Eshkolot Architects in Tel ...

The Iron Age users of two ancient toilets in Jerusalem were not a ... of dysentery-causing parasites in material excavated from the cesspits below the two stone toilets that would have belonged ...

a piece of ancient Jerusalem stone roughly the size of a brick fell onto the prayer area in front of the Western Wall during prayer services. The stone that fell at the Western Wall. Courtesy of ...

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