Ancient wall found in Jerusalem

Posted on: September 5th, 2009 by ecthompson md No Comments

Now this is cool.

From CNN.com:

An archaeological dig in Jerusalem has turned up a 3,700-year-old wall that is the largest and oldest of its kind found in the region, experts say.

The wall is built of enormous boulders, confounding archaeologists as to how ancient peoples built it.

Standing 8 meters (26 feet) high, the wall of huge cut stones is a marvel to archaeologists.

"To build straight walls up 8 meters ... I don't know how to do it today without mechanical equipment," said the excavation's director, Ronny Reich. "I don't think that any engineer today without electrical power [could] do it."

Archaeologist Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority added, "You see all the big boulders -- all the boulders are 4 to 5 tons." (more...)

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Hasn't anyone ever seen the Flintstones? Or Stargate??? How about the goliaths mentioned in the Bible?

mitzimi: the wall was dated 3700 years ago 3700 -2009 ----------- 1691 B.C. The city of Rome was founded around the 9th century B.C.! Do you see it... it just proves the people of antiquity were more awesome at construction than we are today... Egyptians or no Egyptians... Pagan:The Canaanites were practicing a religion that involved Sex orgies obviously the Jews (and God,) would have thought it was a total horror that had to be Abhorred (for God, a chance to do some regrettable[ for him not my own opinion considering he loves humanity as referenced by Jesus] Judgment through a nation conquering another (see Babylonians vs Jews after Israel split and Romans vs Jews after Jesus died.) Matt and Airborne 869: 5200 views on Genesis, Absolute Literal seems to be obvious but on History channel's the Universe's"Beyond the Big Bang, it looked to much like a Old Earth Creationist 1st day of Creation wait til the Rapture or Second Coming and ask Him yourself. God Bless, Jesus loves you all and John 3:16 and If you want to be saved, repent and believe the Gospel. bye...

I just want to point out that they were saying it was built by pagans. Yes the pagans that had to be killed, eradicated, destroyed. Those nasty, dirty pagans..... It's a good thing the pagans don't want to reclaim Israel. It might just be all too clear who was really there first.

Although this wall is an exciting discovery, I'm not sure why everyone is so shocked at how it could possibly have been built. Building a wall with 5 ton boulders sort of pales in comparison with the other, famous one - The Wall - in Jerusalem. The Western Wall in Jerusalem is built with stones that range in weight from 2-5 tons for the smallest stones, up to 570 tons! These were all quarried, transported and used to build the Temple Mount without any mechanical equipment and stacked without any kind of cement or binding agent between them. (See the Temple of Jerusalem. OK, so it isn't quite as old as the newly discovered wall, but compared to moving a 570 ton rock, moving a 5-ton rock is sort of small change ....

Humans did not evolve FROM apes...we ARE apes; more specifically, we are ALL (yes, every one of us) African apes. Get over it. Of course, I suppose this might be hard for some (those who,say, consider a 26 ft stone wall to be evidence of a supernatural being) to accept. The ability of ancient people (many,many people!) to move and stack large stones is even more impressive considering the wheelbarrow had not yet been invented. That's right, the wheelbarrow was the earth-shattering technological breakthrough in the time Jesus was living...seriously,the WHEELBARROW(!)...think about it. Of course, maybe the wheelbarrow is evidence of a supernatural being? Anyway, I don't mind being an African ape at all; although, come to think of it, I don't really tolerate really hot weather that well.

An all the GOD-less (some religious) LIBERALS in America believe Mankind EVOLVED from APES ! What a crock!