Life goes on in Jerusalem.
And so does excavation. BAR readers will recall the eighth-century B.C. wall built by King Hezekiah of Judah to protect the city from an attack by Sennacherib of Assyria, which was recently discovered by Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron on the eastern flank of the City of David. The excavators admit they found the new wall by accident, rather than by design. But once they stumbled on it, they naturally wanted to extend their excavation of it. What is especially exciting is that the southern extension of this wall has revealed some type of offset, or projection.