'Small in size yet limitless in scope': historian digs deep into Jerusalem's history

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
When Mark Twain visited Jerusalem in 1867, he remarked: &The sights are too many
They swarm about you at every step: no single foot of ground in all Jerusalem … seems to be without a stirring and important history.& And
yet, for a city whose history seems so present, and so familiar, there is also much that we do not know; or know badly.