title: Jerusalem: History, Archaeology and Apologetic Proof of Scripture
author:  Galyn Wiemers 
description: Galyn Wiemers is the founder of Generation Word, a Bible teaching ministry, focused on helping bring Biblical literacy back to the United States of America. Galyn is the author of "Hope for America's Last Generation," Framework for Christian Faith, and "The Political Platform of the Lord and King."
zlib_text: #  Archaeology, Heritage and Ethics in the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem
  
  This volume is a critical study of recent archaeology in the Western Wall
  Plaza area, Jerusalem. Considered one of the holiest places on Earth for Jews
  and Muslims, it is also a place of controversy, where the State marks ‘our’
  remains for preservation and adoration and ‘theirs’ for silencing.
  
  Based on thousands of documents from the Israel Antiquities Authority and
  other sources, such as protocols of planning committees, readers can explore
  for the first time this archaeological ‘heart of darkness’ in East Jerusalem.
  The book follows a series of unique discoveries, reviewing the approval and
  execution of development plans and excavations, and the use of the sites once
  excavation has finished. Who decides what and how to excavate, what to
  preserve – or ‘remove’? Who pays for the archaeology, for what aims? The
  professional, scientific archaeology of the past happens now: it modifies the
  present and is modified b