Under Jerusalem the buried history of the world's most contested city

"A sweeping history of Jerusalem and the pivotal role that archaeology has played--both in its invention as a modern holy city and as the match that lit a geopolitical fire beneath it In 1863, a French politician and adventurer heard a rumor of biblical treasures beneath Jerusalem. At the time,...

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Main Author: Lawler, Andrew (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Moment of Insanity
  • A Fool's Errand
  • A Masonic Mission
  • The Roots of Our Problem
  • A Faithful Watchman
  • A Great and Potent Force
  • Gone with the Treasures of Solomon
  • A Dangerous Fantasy
  • Exalting the Walls
  • The Magnificence of the Metropolis
  • The Rabbi's McGuffin
  • Someone of Great Imagination
  • A Free People In Our Land
  • The Cellar Crusade
  • The Bedrock of Our Existence
  • Millennial Madness
  • Ruins in the Mind
  • Reality is Always Stronger Than Belief
  • The Rebel Dig
  • Resistance by Existence
  • Here We Will Stay
  • Return of the Queen.