John Hobbins has a great roundup of posts discussing the “10th-century” wall recently discovered in Jerusalem (and related finds). For those (like myself) who strongly suspect there is something fishy with how ancient chronology has been put together, there is little chance that this find is actually from the Solomonic era, although it does (like the Qeiyafa inscription) point to an era only a few generations removed from the United Monarchy.

At any rate, a little more light seems to be shining on the “dark age” of early Iron Age Israel.