When we found it, it was exactly as it was here 2,800 years ago,” one researcher said of the site in the ancient heart of ...
The Times of Israel reported that ... excavations near the Mount of Olives, a ridge just east of Jerusalem's Old City. The hill was named for the olive groves that once grew there, and in the ...
As per archaeologists, the complex was likely constructed in the Middle Bronze Age, with its final stage in Iron Age IIB.
on Mount Moriah. Long before the Maccabees, when the First Temple was built by King Solomon the Wise, a different eighth day holiday was selected for the initial hanukat mizbeah in Jerusalem, and ...