Jacob L. Loose Collection

A view outside the Damascus Gate has several people—men, women, and two children—walking on the dirt road. One man stands beside his ladened donkey as another man, holding an umbrella to shade the sun...

The walls on either side of the rock and dirt road leading up to St. Stephen's Gate, are different. The wall on the left is cut stone with mortar, and the wall on the right is dry-stack stone. A man...