The ritual bath is located on top of a cliff in the “Upper City," the area of Herod’s City which housed Jerusalem’s elites.
(photo credit: HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM)
A salvage excavation near the Temple Mount has unearthed a unique mikveh ritual bath dating to the Second Temple period.
The mikveh is located on top of a cliff in the “Upper City,” a phrase coined by historian Josephus Flavius to describe the area of Herod’s City that housed Jerusalem’s elites in what is now the Jewish Quarter.



