From Jerusalem Dig Turns Up Gold Coins from Second Temple Period: Last month, archeologists from Tel Aviv University digging at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem found a hoard of coins dating from the time of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE). A ceramic cooking pot from the 1st century CE containing 15 large gold coins was found under the floor of a cave. Dr. Oded Lipschits described...
Seal of Biblical King Zedekiah’s Minister Found in Jerusalem Archeological Dig
Another archaeological discovery proving the veracity of the Bible and the veracity of the Jewish claim to Jerusalem. Via JPost: A seal impression belonging to a minister of the biblical King Zedekiah, which dates back 2,600 years, has been uncovered completely intact during an archeological dig in Jerusalem’s ancient City of David, Israeli archeologist Prof. Eilat Mazar said on Thursday...
Israeli Archeologist Finds Artifacts from Time of Solomon’s Temple
Via Canadian Jewish News: Yuval Baruch, Jerusalem’s district archeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, made archeological history in October 2007 when he uncovered pottery artifacts on the site of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount dating from the time of King Solomon’s Temple (the First Jewish Temple). “The Muslim Waqf does not allow Israeli archeologists to conduct any...
Second Temple Coin Used For 1/2 Shekel Found in Jerusalem Dig
The fabricated and manufactured history of “ancient Palestine” has been slapped in the face again. Via INN: Second Temple Coin Used For 1/2 Shekel Found in Jerusalem Dig More archaeological coinage has been unearthed that proves that Jews are the true indigenous people of the legitimate and sovereign nation of Israel. From INN: A coin from the Second Temple, used in the half...
First-Temple Building Remains Found Near the Jewish Holy Temple Mount
While Muslims huddle in their stench-filled darkened rooms, conniving new ways to fabricate their history and concoct schemes to murder innocent Jews, the Israel Antiquities Authority announces that for the first time in the history of the archaeological research of Jerusalem that building remains from the First Temple period have been exposed so close to the Temple Mount – on the eastern slopes...
Police Stop Islamic Work on Temple Mount in Jerusalem
From Police Stop Islamic Work on Temple Mount in Jerusalem:
Police on Tuesday stopped Wakf Muslim trust officials from performing unauthorized construction work on the Temple Mount. Officers blocked workers from continuing unauthorized “surfacing work,” said Jerusalem police chief Cmdr.
First Temple Seal Found in City of David
More archaeological proof that the Jewish people are indigenous to Israel. From First Temple Seal Found in City of David: An ancient seal bearing an archaic Hebrew inscription dating back to the 8th century BCE has been uncovered in an archeological excavation in Jerusalem’s City of David, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Thursday. The seal, discovered near the Gihon Spring, bears...
The Latest Damage to Antiquities on the Temple Mount
The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs has just published an article called The Latest Damage to Antiquities on the Temple Mount. An excerpt: It is only too evident that the on-going Waqf excavations on the Temple Mount, which are generally carried out without archaeological supervision of any kind, have severely damaged antiquities from many periods. Since 2004, archaeologist Dr. Gabi Barkai...
2500-year-old First Temple Seal Found in Jerusalem
Originally posted on JPost: Jan 17, 2008 Via JPost: A stone seal bearing the name of one of the families who acted as servants in the First Temple and then returned to Jerusalem after being exiled to Babylonia has been uncovered in an archaeological excavation in Jerusalem’s City of David, a prominent Israeli archaeologist said Wednesday. The 2,500-year-old black stone seal, which has the...
Iran Plans on Destroying Tomb of King Cyrus, Friend of the Jews
I like to think that I am no longer shocked by what Islamists do, by who they kill, by how they behead, by what they mutilate. I like to think that I am no longer shocked by what historical sites Islamists detonate, deface, or deform, or what rich and multi-layered cultural sites they wipe out, like the Bamiyan statues, Joseph’s tomb, or Rachel’s tomb, all in order to infuse their...