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The great temple once stood. a mountain top in the center of the walled old city. it is a story place layered with spiritual meaning and now dominated by the golden dome and a mosque. but just a short walk away outside the walls, a picture is emerging of the ancient and humble beginnings of jerusalem which the bible says was founded by david. >> the city of david was a small settlement, hardly to be termed as a city. most probably unfortified, but it is here somewhere. >> we met an beray and his israeli archaeologist who leads a team digging for evidence of the original city which would have b...

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 it's got an interesting name. i mean, at least colloquially we're calling it the parking lot dig. >> yeah. it's 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 solomon's temple, the...

Settlement, hardly to be termed as a city. most probably unfortified, but it is here somewhere. >> we met an israeli archaeologist who leads a team digging for evidence of the original city which would have been existed around 1,000 b.c. and it's got an interesting name. at least we're calling it the parking lot dig. >> yeah. it's 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 remains of jerusalem began to appear. >> how much do we know about the temple? >> actually, we know nothing. we had absolu...

>> and the story of the holy city begins around 1,000 b.c. in the land of canaan. >> in 1,000 b.c., the major kingdoms were the egyptian kingdom to the south and the hittites to the north. this land of canaan in between, that was just a battlefield that the big boys came to duke it out on. >> canaan is the land that the israelites believe that god gave to them as the land that they were to inherit. the problem is, is that there were already people in canaan, the canaanites. according to the bible, god commands the israelites to kill every man, woman and child there, what we would call today ge...