The British Colonial Office has issued a statement asserting that the actual location of the ancient “City of David” was not on the spot mentioned by tradition.
Archaeologists long ago established, the statement that the City stood on a little triangular lot of ground ### Ophel, south of the present Jerusalem. It is ### has heretofore been of no religious int### or Mohammedans, that the excavation are to be made.
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