Timeline - from Shiloah to Silwan The comprehensive timeline that appears in this page is based on archaeological findings and historical sources, and constitutes an alternative to the partial timeline which appears in the official website of the national park “City of David”.

5000 BCE Occasional settlement
on the southeast slope
Early Bronze Age
Canaanites
Small village 		3000–2800 BCE
1700 BCE Middle Bronze Age
First Canaanite city
First water system
First city wall
Late Bronze Age
Fortified acropolis
built on the spur
Canaanites (know in the
bible as “Jebusites”) 		1300/1200 BCE
1000-900 BCE Iron Age IIa
Small Israelite settlement
Evidence of Judean City 900-800 BCE
800-701 BCE Iron Age IIb
Expansion of city
The Shiloah water tunnel
Wide wall for the big City
Assyrian siege
King Hezekiah
Isaiah the prophet
The destruction of Jerusalem
by the Babylonians
The southeast slope abandoned
Jeremiah the prophet 		586 BCE
Around 500 BCE Persian Period
The return of
Judeans to Jerusalem
Persian Period
Ezra & Nehemiah 		450 BCE
332 BCE Hellenistic Period
Hellenistic Period
Hasmonean Rule 		164 BCE
63 BCE Roman Period
Roman Period
King Herod 		37 BCE
Around 20-33 A.D Jesus in Jerusalem
70 CE Roman Period
The destruction of
the Second Temple
Byzantine Period
Christian rule in Jerusalem 		324 CE
5th Century Byzantine Period
Empress Eudocia
Islamic Period 638 CE
661 CE Islamic Period
The Umayyad Caliphate
Islamic Period
The Abbasid Caliphate 		750 CE
969 CE Islamic Period
The Fatimid Caliphate
Earthquake
Silwan area is abandoned 		1033 CE
1099 CE Crusader Period
Islamic Period
Ayyubid Dynasty – Salah Ad-din 		1187 CE
1250 CE Mamluk Period
Islamic Period
Silwan resettled 		16 Century
1517 CE Ottoman Period
British Mandate 1917
1948 Annexed by Jordan
Israeli rule
Silwan annexed to Jerusalem 		1968
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