How Ancient Jerusalem Outgrew Its Own Walls
The walls surrounding Jerusalem's Old City were built by Suleiman the Magnificent between 1537 and 1541 — yet the original Jerusalem sits outside them, uninhabited since medieval times. This episode traces the city's physical footprint across four millennia: from a twelve-acre Bronze Age ridge with one spring, to a 445-acre peak under Herod Agrippa's Third Wall, to the eleventh-century earthquake that permanently amputated the biblical city from the walled town. Then we follow the nineteenth-century breakout beyond the walls — the legal and social barriers that kept everyone inside, the Touro…
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