These photos were made by A. Douglas Tushingham who acted as the Associate Director of the British-Canadian-French Joint Expedition to Jerusalem (Western Hill) from 1962 till 1967 and also conducted an excavation at the Armenian Garden.
Dome of the Rock (built in 685-691 A.D.) “one of the world’s most beautiful buildings” (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem33, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Haram area from air, showing Dome of the Rock and Aqsa mosque
(1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem32, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Carving of bone plaque (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem31, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Bronze lion’s head ornament (Roman or Byzantine?) (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem30, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Weights from pre-exilic Jerusalem (site A) up to 24 shekels. Total of 41 weights ranging from ¼ neseph to 24 shekels (photo P. Dorrell) (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem29, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Jerusalem, site L: remains of foundation of earliest city wall, on bedrock (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem23, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Excavations in 1967 adjacent to city wall; Mameluke Caravan-sarai Jerusalem, site L: remains of foundation of earliest city wall, on bedrock (1967, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem22, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Jerusalem, SQ LI: quarrying of bedrock (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem20, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Muristan, Jerusalem site C: looking east and upward through fill dating from foundation Aelia Capitolina (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem19b, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Muristan, Jerusalem site C: pre-exile quarry (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem19a, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Excavations of Avigad in Jewish Quarter – his idea of wall line and area were the British Canadian expedition worked. Site C from north (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem18, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Jerusalem, Armenian Garden, view from south-east; near end of dig 1967; in foreground SQ IX, IV, I, XIV, XI (1967, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem17b, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
British-Canadian excavations south of Citadel in Armenian Garden. No trace of early walls. Present walls are Turkish, built A.D. 1538-1541 by Suleiman the Magnificent [remarks on slide: Cecil Western, site L (or Z?)] (1967, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem17a, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Work on Western Hill. The Citadel from the air and the Jaffa Gate (Bab el-Khalil) (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem16, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
The present exit of tunnel at the Pool of Siloam (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem15, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
The interior of the Siloam tunnel (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem14, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Steps leading down to spring and Siloam Tunnel – built by Hezekiah (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem13, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
East slope showing little house covering ancient Gihon spring (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem12, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Jerusalem, Avigad’s City Wall (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem11, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Shows latest wall continuing north; site A2, 1965 (1965, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem10a, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Latest city wall of Israelite period on original Zion – probably Hezekiah or Manasseh; site A2 (1965, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem10, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Solomic case-mate wall (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem09, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Aerial view of results of Shiloh’s work, below 587 house walls. “We know that Davidic citadel extends further south, and the great gap in system evident in our earliest excavations may be evidence of collapse “water” gate (?) – (Macalister 1923-1925)” (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem08, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Remains of city and houses destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in 587 B.C. Note northern limit of the excavation. Extensions to north by Yigael Shiloh in 1980s (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem06, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Canaanite citadel foundations; Bronze Age terraces in site A I (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem05, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Upper part of trench, showing Maccabean tower; pre-exilic houses and, below, evidence of Late Bronze (Canaanite) citadel foundations (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem04, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Earliest wall (1800 B.C.) but no earliest settlement at the site (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem03, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Trench A from east (British-Canadian project 1961-1967) (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem02, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
Jerusalem: aerial view from south (1960s, ID: cTushinghampJeruzalem01, Source: slide, Repository: NPAPH-project, Creator: A.D. Tushingham)
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