Siebenberg House is a museum below a house on 5 Beit HaShoeva Alley in the Old City of Jerusalem

Theo and Miriam Siebenberg bought the house in 1970 and Theo was convinced that it was built over significant archaeological remains. But archaeologists were skeptical, so he conducted and financed the excavations himself.

The excavations carried out underneath the Siebenberg home in the course of 18 years have revealed remains of ancient dwellings, rooms cut from rock, Mikvah

Mikvah

Mikveh is a bath used for the purpose of ritual immersion in Judaism...

's (ritual baths) aqueducts, a huge cistern

Cistern

A cistern is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. Cisterns are distinguished from wells by their waterproof linings...

 and burial vaults, reaching back 3,000 years to the days of King Solomon and the first temple period, as well as of the Second Temple

Second Temple

The Jewish Second Temple was an important shrine which stood on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BCE and 70 CE. It replaced the First Temple which was destroyed in 586 BCE, when the Jewish nation was exiled to Babylon...

, and Byzantine

Byzantine

Byzantine usually refers to the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages.Byzantine may also refer to:* A citizen of the Byzantine Empire, or native Greek during the Middle Ages...

periods. It also shows rare artifacts, including pottery, glass, mosaics, coins, jars and weapons.