Under the Dome with Andrew Lawler

One of the most hotly contested pieces of land in the world. The center of Jerusalem and a place of importance to Muslims, Jews and Christians. The current location of the Dome of the Rock.

Find out why it is important to you to know and understand the history and background of this piece of landscape, and what it may hold for the future.

Andrew Lawler writes a wonderful article in Septembers National Geographic, listen to the podcast to learn more.

Andrew Lawler

Andrew Lawler is author of Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City, the bestselling The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and the acclaimed Why Did the Chicken Cross the World?: The Epic Saga of the Bird that Powers Civilization. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He is a contributing writer for Science and a contributing editor for Archaeology. Lawler's work has appeared several times in The Best of Science and Nature Writing.