Israeli Archaeologists Dig Up Lavish Subterranean Structure Near Temple Mount
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Subject: Israeli Archaeologists Dig Up Lavish Subterranean Structure Near Temple Mount Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:14 am
Israeli Archaeologists Dig Up Lavish Subterranean Structure Near Temple Mount
“It’s one of the [most] impressive, beautiful and grand places found recently in Jerusalem,” Israel Antiquities Authority Jerusalem Region Archaeologist Yuval Baruch told the station. “It is one of the most significant remains” found in Jerusalem in the last generation,” he said. The ongoing excavations, which are taking place beneath the Western Wall plaza in the former Mughrabi Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, feature a Mamluk-era caravansary dating to the Middle Ages and remains of lavish public buildings from the Herodian period, over 2,000 years ago, some 20 meters (65 feet) from the Temple Mount. The IAA has conducted the “most extensive preservation work ever done in Jerusalem” to restore the Mamluk building ahead of its intended opening to the public.
Israeli Archaeologists Dig Up Lavish Subterranean Structure Near Temple Mount