[2] The Park is located in the northern Ophel of Jerusalem at the foot of the Temple Mount's Southern Wall.

In the end, it was decided that the park would be divided into 3 sections, each based on a single layer excavation, to varying depths.

Ottoman authorities forbade him to dig on or near the Temple Mount, claiming that it would damage a site holy to Islam.

[4] Benjamin Mazar of the Archaeological Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was appointed chief archaeologist for the project.

At the end of the 1990s, the site was declared a park by the Israeli government, and the Davidson Center Museum was opened, displaying artifacts discovered within its limits.

One of the most striking finds located in the Second Temple compound of the park is a paved street adjacent to the Western Wall.

[7] Along the street, adjacent to the wall, a series of shops were uncovered, perhaps for ritual items related to worship.

[8] The continuation of the street was discovered in 2007 on the slopes of the City of David near the Pool of Siloam, where the road ends.

It was almost entirely covered by a pile of stones from the wall, which had been thrown from high above by the Romans during the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD.

The road had initially been attributed to King Herod, but more contemporary scholars date it to Agrippa II.

[10] Josephus states in the early days of Roman commissioner Albinus (AD 62-64), the streets began to be paved with white stone due to make up for the fact that the completion of the construction of the Temple Mount had caused a severe lack of employment in the region.

[11] Discovered by Mazar in 1968, one of the stones from the landslide, where it fell to its location of discovery, was found near the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount.

[12] The house of takiah potentially refers to a place where the Israelites blew the shofar to announce the begin of holidays and the Sabbath, as explained by Josephus.

The neighborhood was dense with construction by the end of the 4th century in the Eastern part of the Ophel and included many churches, shops, and homes.