They are not certain that this is in fact David's Palace, but the remains of the structure point to a wealthy owner and much evidence points to this structure being David's Palace. There was an early toilet found as well as a Bullae (seal made of clay used on important documents).
Across the road from the City of David is the Arab village of Silwan with its houses stacked on a hillside like blocks. Looking from David's Palace across to Silwan you can see what could be burial caves at the base of the houses.
We then went down Warren's Shaft to see Hezekiah's Tunnel beneath David's Palace. The Gihon Spring was Jerusalem's main water source, but it was located near the bottom of the eastern slope outside the city walls. A system had to be devised to create a protective passageway to get to the Gihon Spring. In 1867 Charles Warren climbed from the Gihon Spring up a vertical shaft over 13 meters high that had been hewn from the rocks by the Canaanites in the 18th-15th centuries BCE. The passageway lead to a pool carved out of the bedrock that was protected by surrounding fortifications.
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