As they chisel away the rock they've got
to be careful not to damage what
archaeologists have been looking for for
more than two centuries.
Historians say here is where rebels took back to
Jerusalem from the Greeks a victory
marked in the holiday of Hanukkah.
"Small finds related to this
discovery are mainly coins but other artifacts
and we know that the dating of this
fortification system precisely falls
within the presence of presence here in
general and timed here in the beginning
of the 2nd century BC."
The fortress is estimated to be two hundred and fifty
meters long and 60 metres wide
The debate over the location of the two
thousand-year-old Accra has seen many
claim that stood in Jerusalem's Old City
at sports like the Christian Church of
the Holy Sepulchre near where to Jewish
temples also lay.
But the remains under this week are outside the walls
overlooking an area known as the City of David
