The dig also unearthed lavish homes inhabited by the Herodian upper classes, the remains of the Byzantine Nea Church, Jerusalem's cardo maximus, a fifth-century 70 feet -wide road connecting the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Nea Church, and remnants of the late 8th-century BCE "broad wall" twice mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah, which was built to defend Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah.