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The raking light in this aerial view of the Old City of Jerusalem, looking east toward the Judaean Desert, clearly shows the Old City walls, which were built according to the orders of Suleiman the Magnificent in the first half of the 16th century CE. In the distance is the Judaean Desert. Beyond the walls of the Old City, is the Mount of Olives and its Jewish cemetery (to the right of the tower on the ridge, flowing down the hillside toward the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount). The Hinnom Valley is just out of sight at the bottom of the picture. Perhaps most interesting in this picture is the Tyropoeon Valley, which can be seen in the shadow that runs north/south (left/right in the picture) through the middle of the Old City, ending on this side of the Temple Mount.