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Archaeologists excavating a site since 2010 uncovered an eight-room structure dating back to the First Temple in 8th century BCE, that included a wine press and more.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia called on the international community to stop the dig: "Israel's actions violate the mosque's sacred nature and risk destroying its religious and Islamic features." [31] Syria condemned Israel's excavations, saying they "pose a threat against the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem."
The term First Temple is customarily used to describe the Temple of the pre-exilic period, which is thought to have been destroyed by the Babylonian conquest. It is described in the Bible as having been built by King Solomon and is understood to have been constructed with its Holy of Holies centered on a stone hilltop now known as the Foundation Stone which had been a traditional focus of ...
[21] [22] The City of David was the ancient epicenter of Jerusalem and whose boundaries stretched from the Temple Mount in the north, [22] thence southward to the Pool of Siloam, [22] including the area marking the Kidron brook in the east and the adjacent dale in the west. [22] Its area is about 50 dunams (ca. 12.3 acres). [22]
The Temple in Jerusalem, or alternatively the Holy Temple (Hebrew: בֵּית־הַמִּקְדָּשׁ , Modern: Bēt haMīqdaš, Tiberian: Bēṯ hamMīqdāš; Arabic: بيت المقدس, Bayt al-Maqdis), refers to the two religious structures that served as the central places of worship for Israelites and Jews on the modern-day Temple ...
Tel Motza or Tel Moẓa [1] is an archaeological site in Motza, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.It includes the remains of a large Neolithic settlement dated to around 8600–8200 BCE, and Iron Age Israelite settlement dating to around 1000 to 500 BCE and identified with the biblical Mozah mentioned in the Book of Joshua.
The Monastery of the Virgins is a structure uncovered during Benjamin Mazar's excavations south of Jerusalem's Temple Mount.The large number of Christian religious finds from the site have prompted its identification with a monastery described by a pilgrim, Theodosius the archdeacon, in his De Situ Terrae Sanctae, a work of the early 6th century. [1]
The Siebenberg House tells of three periods of the reign of the Kingdom of Israel.During their millennia-spanning history, the Jewish people have had sovereignty and independence only three times: 3,000 years ago, during the reigns of King David and King Solomon; 2,000 years ago, during the period of the Hasmoneans; and in the present, in the form of the State of Israel.