- Title: JERUSALEM: ARCHAEOLOGISTS RE-OPEN ANCIENT GATE TO JERUSASLEM OLD CITY
- Date: 26th May 1995
- Summary: JERUSALEM (MAY 26, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY WALLS/SV/PAN TO NEW GATE IN WALL, SCAFFOLDING AROUND (4 SHOTS) 0.33 2. MCU ARCHAEOLOGIST RONI REICH SAYING THE GATE WILL BE USED FOR AN ADDITIONAL ENTRANCE INTO OLD CITY (ENGLISH) 0.59 3. SV/ZOOM OUT GATE WITH MOSQUE IN BACKGROUND (2 SHOTS) 1.16 FOR AN ADDITIONAL ENTRANCE FOR PEDESTRIANS INTO THE OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM. WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE WAILING WALL, TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT AREA. A LOT OF PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC CROSSES HERE, SO SOME OF IT WILL CROSS HERE." Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 10th June 1995 13:00
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- Location: JERUSALEM
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- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVAA1U4WCHZ5JUFIDOCIKWDAPNMH
- Story Text: Jerusalem's walled Old City has a new gate that is almost 800 years old.
Israeli archaeologists on Thursday (May 25) reopened the 13th-century Tanners' Gate built by the Ayyubids, sultans from Egypt and Syria who conquered Jerusalem in 1187 and ruled for about 80 years.
Roni Reich, archaeologist for the Israeli Antiquities Authority said that the gate had been reopened to provide easier access for pedestrians to the Western (Wailing) Wall and the Temple Mount.
The stone portal, sealed in the 16th century by the Ottoman conquerers of Jerusalem when they changed the walls of the Old City, faces south towards Bethlehem.
It was called Tanners' Gate because of a cattle market just inside which supplied hides to nearby tanneries.
Archaeologists recently uncovered the opening, which is two metres (6.5 ft)-wide and 1.5 metres (five ft)-high, some 30 metres (yards) west of the Dung Gate.
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