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Burnt House Review
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Burnt House
- Address: Tiferet Israel St., Jewish Quarter, Jerusalem
- Phone: No phone
- Category: Archaeological Sites
- Location: Jewish Quarter
Fodor's Review:
The discovery here of stone weights inscribed with the name Bar Katros – a Jewish priestly family known from ancient sources – indicated that this may have been a basement industrial workshop, possibly for the manufacture of sacramental incense, during the Second Temple period, some 2,000 years ago. Charred cooking pots and debris give a vivid sense of the Roman devastation of the city in AD 70. Archaeologists were riveted by the discovery of the skeletal hand and arm of a woman clutching a scorched staircase in a futile attempt to escape the flames. A video presentation recreates the bitter civil rivalries of the period, and the city's tragic end.
- Cost: NIS 25; combined ticket with Herodian Quarter NIS 35
- Open: Sun.–Thurs. 9–4:30, Fri. and Jewish holiday eves 9–12:30
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