Tancred's Tower
Tancred's Tower, known in Arabic as Qasr (al-)Jalud ("Goliath's Castle", ), was a large tower at the northwest corner of the Old City of Jerusalem, of which only meager remains were unearthed by archaeologists. Today, much of the area of the original structure is beneath the of the De La Salle Brothers. Parts of it are in the external base of the city wall where the section coming from the New Gate to the northeast meets the section coming from Jaffa Gate to the southeast. Names The tower is known in Arabic as / ("Goliath's Castle") or ("Goliath's Fortress") or ("Goliath's Tower"). The name may be from traditions about Goliath or an allusion to its size or a reference to the Tower of David. To the Crusaders, it was the (Latin for "Tancred's Tower"), after Tancred of Antioch, the commander whose troops breached the Fatimid defenses at this specific point during the 1099 siege. There was also a 13th-century map where it is the . Excavation The remains of the tower were discovered during excavations led by Dan Bahat and Menashe Ben-Ari of the Department of Antiquities in 1971–72. History The remains are of a large tower, probably first built