History of Jerusalem During Ancient Ages: A study of Jewish Historical and Archaeological EvAbstract

This study tackles a citical stage in the history of civilizationof the City of Bait Al-Maqdis Jeusalem) between 3200 B.C.E. and 135A.D. This period covers both the b？onze and iron ages as well as the Pe？sian and Hellenistic periods and part of the Roman era, which ended by the take over of Hadrian on the City and the end demolition of Bar Kochba Revolutionin 135A.D. Most historians did their best to ignore the real history of this City focusing just on the Jewish ruling of the City of bait al-maqdis by depending on resources such as the biblical text that are unauthentic and have no scientific back-up. Accordingly, this study aims at investigating this particular era to put the historical events into their right track and refuting the biblical claims. Moreover, the study aims to create an objective reality of the events that the City of Bait Al- Maqdis (Jerusalem) passed through during that period relying on archaeological excavations which revealed the real image of the chronological events of the City regardless of the disfigu？ed events of the Bible