The Tower of David Museum
The Tower of David Museum
Walking through the Tower of David Museum is like walking through a
space age time capsule. In each room of this 2,000 year old citadel
another era of Jerusalem’s history is detailed through state of the art
displays and exhibits..
1000 BCE - Jerusalem becomes King David’s capital; Solomon builds
the First temple; the kingdom is divided into Israel and Judah.
722 BCE - Fall of the Kingdom of Israel; expansion of Jerusalem under
Hezekiah; decline and fall of Judah; Babylonian exile.
538 BCE - Return to Zion under the leadership of Ezra and Nechemia;
construction of the Second temple.
332 BCE - Jerusalem comes under Hellenistic domination.
166 BCE - Maccabean revolt; restoration of the Jewish autonomy;
Hasmonean empire.
63 BCE - Invasion of Israel by Roman forces under Pompeii; Kingdom
of Herod;
0 - Rule of Roman procurators; Development of Jewish resistance to
Roman domination.
66 CE - Great Jewish Revolt; destruction of Jerusalem and Second
temple; Massada, Center of the Jewish leadership moves to the Galil.
132 CE - Bar Kochba Revolt; Jerusalem razed and rebuilt as Aelia
Capitolina; Jews excluded from Jerusalem.
324 CE - Talmudic period; decline of Israel as Jewish center.
638 CE - Arab conquest of Jerusalem; construction of Dome of the
Rock and El Aksa Mosques; renewal of Jerusalem settlement.
1100 CE - Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem; return of Jews to
Jerusalem and worship at Western Wall.
1300 CE - Marmaluke rule of Jerusalem; Jews expelled from Spain.
1517 CE - Ottoman Empire rules Jerusalem; growth of Jewish
community.
1789 CE - Napoleon in Israel; Ottoman Reform.
1860 CE - First settlement outside the walls; First Zionist Congress;
First Aliya.
1917 CE - British Mandate in Palestine; Holocaust; partition plan
1948 CE - State of Israel proclaimed; reunification of Jerusalem (1967).
1996 CE - 3,000 years sine the establishment of Jerusalem as the
capital city by King David.