Eilat Mazar found the City of David

’But it was her excavation on the elevation abutting the City of David, down the hill and south of Har Habayis, that shook the archaeological world. For lying undisturbed for nearly 3000 years was a massive building that Mazar was convinced is King David’s palace’.

https://mishpacha.com/the-woman-who-unearthed-jerusalem/