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Urusalim Jerusalem

Jerusalem stands on the ruins of the Canaanite city called Urusalim whose location on the southern spur of the hill east of the Old City is uncertain. The Osservatore Romano writes that a comprehensive service dedicated to the discovery of a small fragment of only 3 cm with clear traces of burnt clay, found carefully sifting through the soil to carry the foot of a tower that was part of the fortifications of the city of the tenth-ninth century before the Christian era, consioderato "the most ancient inscription found in Jerusalem could be a crucial step in the reconstruction of the history of the ancient city of the Canaanites / Jebusites, which became, after the conquest by David, the capital of Israel. The discovery - said the Vatican newspaper - was the work of the archaeological mission led by Eilat Mazar who for years has taken over the investigation in the northern part of the hill south-east of the city 'Santa, the Bible Ophel, today in the Palestinian neighborhood which extends south of the fence of the Temple (the Haram esh-Sherif on which stands the Mosque of al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock). The size of the find, the ductus wedges Assyriologists read by Wayne Horowitz and Takayoshi Oshima, the study of clay mineralogy, by Yuval Goren, leave no doubt: it is a cuneiform tablet dating from the fourteenth century before the Christian era , made with local clay hills of central Palestine, similar to specimens from el-Amarna, the location in Egypt where it was discovered back in 1887, the stock of international mail is written on cuneiform tablets in Akkadian language of Amenhotep IV , the Pharaoh "heretic" who renamed 'Akhenaten. In this archive seven letters were sent by Abdi-Khepa sovereign Urusalim, an important city-state of Palestine, with Jerusalem precisely identified. Until a few months ago, the archive data of el-Amarna, though accurate, had not been reflected in the archeology of Jerusalem. A century and a half of excavations carried out in every possible point of the Old City and, in particular, the so-called Citta 'Fortress of Zion of David or not to be confused with the Tower of David at Jaffa Gate, which had returned a few fragments of pottery dated at the time of the Late Bronze Age and this had prompted several scholars to question the identification of Urusalim el-Amarna letters of the Jerusalem of the Canaanites (The Jebusites in the biblical story that refers to the last centuries of the second millennium before the Christian era).

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