So what did Suleiman the Ottoman Turk do? He blocked it up! Har-har, now Jesus can't come through it, har har. Nice move, right? Still, of course, we must note that without Suleiman, the Dome of the Rock would not have been restored and might not be as beautiful as it is now. Jerusalem, man: beautiful, fascinating city, and no matter your faith, or even a lack of it, you should absolutely visit it - and take a circumferential walk around the old city's walls. See all the various gates - the fortified Jaffa Gate (my personal favorite entry into the old city), the magnificent Damascus Gate, the Lions Gate, the Golden Gate, and the forever lolzy Dung Gate, among the others. See the wall running from Herod's Palace (to the left) across to the temple mount? Just before it connects to the temple mount there are a few tall, narrow arches? Labeled as Wilson's Arch and Bridge? The Wailing Wall is the portion of the temple mount wall between there and Robinson's Arch (slightly to the south and labeled). The buildings to the left are where Wilson's Arch/Bridge is and the ruins of Robinson's Arch are to the far right. The wooden ramp thing on the right side is where tourists go up to see the Dome of the Rock and everything else up top.
The white umbrellas running away from the base of the wall are along a shorter divider that separates the men (left) and women (right) who go up to the wall. You can go into some tunnels to the left that lead underground (to where the street level used to be). There's a tunnel that runs all the way along the temple mount wall to the north. "Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, written around 93–94 AD, includes two references to the biblical Jesus in Books 18 and 20. The general scholarly view is that while the longer passage, known as the Testimonium Flavianum, is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it is broadly agreed upon that it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus, which was then subject to Christian interpolation or forgery. Of the other mention in Josephus, Josephus scholar Louis H.