  thumb|250px|tourist inside hezekiah's tunnel 2010 the city of david (, ir david; ) is the israeli namerashid khalidi, palestinian identity: the construction of a modern national consciousness, columbia university press, 1997 p.15:(in the arab neighbourhood of silwan)'israeli settlers ..are attempting to impose exclusive use of the name âcity of davidâ, thereby giviing their current claims the patina, prestige, and legitimacy of a connection some 3,0000 years old. in this they are aided by various maps, tourist guides, and road signs produced by the israeli government, the jerusalem municipality, and the israeli tourist authorities, which use the archaic name "city of david" wherever possible in place of silwan '. for the neighbourhood of wadi hilweh () in silwan.the struggle for jerusalem's holy places, p.81-82 the area is one of the most intensively excavated sites in the wider region.light at the end of the tunel: warren's shaft theory of david's conquest shattered, ronny reich and eli shukron, bar january/february 1999: 22-33, 72, quote: "the area we are talking about - the eastern slope of the city of david and particularly the strip above the gihon spring - has been subject to more archaeological excavations and research than any site in jerusalem, and even in israel." the debate within biblical archaeology over the location of the city of david began in the late 19th century with the excavations of charles warren and hermann guthe on the hill southeast of the old city.excavations in the city of david under ottoman rule, quote: "warren and guthe's discoveries triggered the discussion on whether it was this very hill, on the southern outskirts of the old city of jerusalem, which was taken by king david and turned into his capital."palestine exploration fund 1895, including a number of scholarly discussions on the debate around the location the 1909-11 work of louis-hugues vincent and montagu brownlow parker identified the earliest known human remains in the jerusalem region,[http://www.archpark.org.il/excavations1a.shtml
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