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Picture of Damascus Gate with snow

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Other names for Damascus Gate

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Called the Shechem Gate by the Jews, the Arabs remember this gate as the “Gate of the Column” because of the tall pillar that stood in this gate’s plaza during the Roman and Byzantine period.
Kenyon’s excavations underneath this Turkish gate found remnants of a triple-arched gateway dating to the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian [...]