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Orientation: (Top Photo) You are looking north at the pavement along the Western Wall—what I like to call "Wall Street." A historical marker at the site reads:
“Remains of Jerusalem’s main street, running the length of the Western Wall along about one kilometer, in the late Second Temple period. The street was paved with flagstones and edged with curbstones. It had two large drainage channels running beneath it, and shops opened onto the street on both sides.”
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Just after the conclusion of the Six Day War in 1967, archaeologists immediately began digging at the southwest corner of the Temple Mount. Many exciting discoveries have been unearthed since then. They have been able to piece together the front of some of the shops that lined the main street in the days of Jesus and the disciples.
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The pile of stones you see in the first pic, are believed to be part of the stairway leading to the Temple Mount. The shops would have lined both sides of the street under the archway and further north.
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