Continuing excavations on Jerusalem’s “Third Wall,” Professors Eliezer Sukenik and L.A. Mayer of the Hebrew University have discovered a further section of the wall and another tower 150 meters from the old excavations, it was announced today. The wall begins at the Swedish school and continues straight for 750 meters.
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