Emphasis Preaching Journal

King David's tomb is located on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The cenotaph is draped in red cloth embroidered with Hebrew text, a cloth that could date back to the sixteenth century. But is David buried there? In the 1948 war for independence, a mortar shell landed close to the site. This allowed archeologist, Jacob Pinkerfeld, who was sent to repair the damage, to examine the building site. He discovered three older floors under the existing marble floor, the oldest dating back to Roman times. A foundation ledge at the Roman level proved that the Roman floor was the original floor.