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Delighted to be here. >> great movie and great role. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> great guy, chiwetel and a lot of cnn family interest in him scooping the big one. nischelle turner is up on the bridge. what are you seeing? >> piers a couple things in "12 years of slave" not only was he nominated for best actor, we also saw lupita i dont thinkia n nyongo nominated for best supporting actress, solomons works were re-released on the best sellers list now. this book has sold more since this...

Didnt happen. you really feel down. you feel like somehow you let people down, you did something wrong, you werent strong enough. now within, i think, the day before the oscars at that point my first son was born. so to really -- not to be too soft, but im sorry. im a little soft. >> what has happened to you? >> you realize the things you cant control, you cant control. the other things that come into your life, those are the things that are really kind of special. >> okay. its good until now. >...

Any kind of a lap, im doing a lap with solomon. be hons. all of the things that go through your moment. >> you have a little jacqueline bisset. >> just keep it down to the two minutes and get off the stage. >> since its 5:00 into the top of the how are you. >> with you on his award, lets go to washington and pulitzer prize winning eugene robinson. did you cry when you got your pulitzer prize? >> out of body experience. you know?

Powerful kingdom. >> solomon seemed determined not to repeat the mistakes of his father, king david, and his brothers, whose lust and pride wreaked havoc on their kingdom. >> solomon becomes the greatest king because hes of the davidic dynasty and yet he has none of the faults, none of the sins of david. >> solomon is known as the man of peace. >> reporter: and a man of wisdom. instead of killing his enemies, solomon, were told, married many of them, including a pharaohs daughter. in other insta...

One famous story suggests the ark was taken from jerusalem to egypt, hundreds of years before the babylonian siege began. >> thats where indiana jones goes and looks for it. were told that sheshaq of the bible, an egyptian pharaoh, that he may have attacked jerusalem just after the time of solomon. >> yes. around about 980 b.c. >> and there is one theory that he took away the ark of the covenant. this is where we get the indiana jones theory. >> he may have taken the ark back to the city of tani...

To repeat the mistakes of his father, king david, and his brothers, whose lust and pride wreaked havoc on their kingdom. >> solomon becomes the greatest king because hes of the davidic dynasty and yet he has none of the faults, none of the sins of david. >> solomon is known as the man of peace. >> reporter: and a man of wisdom. instead of killing his enemies, solomon, were told, married many of them, including a pharaohs daughter. in other instances he disarmed them with his wit and his wisdom. ...

>> reporter: we met doron ben ami, an israeli archaeologist who leads a team digging for evidence of the original city, which would have existed around 1,000 b.c. >> and its got an interesting name. i mean, at least colloquially were calling it the parking lot dig. >> yeah. its hard to believe. but five years ago cars used to park right above our heads here. and once we decided to go beneath the asphalt, immediately the early remains of jerusalem start to appear. >> how much do we know about sol...

>> the city of david was a rather small settlement, hardly can be termed as a city. most probably unfortified. but it was here somewhere. >> reporter: we met doron ben ami, an israeli archaeologist who leads a team digging for evidence of the original city, which would have existed around 1,000 b.c. >> and its got an interesting name. i mean, at least colloquially were calling it the parking lot dig. >> yeah. its hard to believe. but five years ago cars used to park right above our heads here. a...

>> under david and solomon, the israelites were able to amelg mite into a kingdom. >> and his brothers whose lust and pride wreaked havoc on their kingdom. >> hes of the dynasty and yet he has none of the faults, none of the sins of david. >> solomon is known as the man of peace. >> and a man of wisdom. instead of killing his enemies, solomon, were told, married many of them. including a pharaohs daughter. in other instances, he disarmed them with his wit and wisdom. like the fiercely beautiful ...

Discovered by accident in the 19th century when an archaeologist was walking his dog, this massive network of caves and tunnels is known as solomons quarries. is this a natural cave? >> no, not at all. >> the quarry once provided building materials for some of the greatest construction projects in the city. so what is this great big gaping hole here? >> what you see here is the shape of cut of a big stone that used in the second temple. we can see today the wall. >> the secretive free masons eve...