Ottoman Palestine on film

Link to YouTube to watch archive footage of Jerusalem (late 19th century?) and Bethlehem and Gethsemane (1920s)

1. Jerusalem (said to be made in 1896)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vaIK8wlAl0>

2. Bethlehem and Gethsemane (mid 1920s)
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqY_apdIXc&feature=fvwp&NR=1>

Jerusalem: the biography (book review)

Simon Sebag Montefiore's "Jerusalem : the biography" was  published in the U.K earlier this year. The book examines the history of the city from the earliest times to the present day.

Read the latest review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review 


Find the book in SOAS Library at QJ956.944 / 734184

Click here to view the Library catalogue

Jerusalem: archaeology and rival histories

Article from the online edition of the Smithsonian Magazine explores the complex history of the Temple Mount and the fraught nature of archaeology on the site as "ancient history inflames modern-day political tensions"