[Palter]

Temple, ping.

[khnyny]

Very cool article.

From the article: “Nonetheless, archaeologists have had little opportunity to search for physical evidence to sort legend from reality. For one thing, the site remains a place of active worship. The authority that controls the compound, an Islamic council called the Waqf, has long forbidden archaeological excavations, which it views as desecration.”

So much for truth and science, eh?

[NoLibZone]

Has anyone ever found one single “Palestinian” artifact?

A scroll. A tablet, Marriage certificate, list of rulers..anything?

[golux]

Don’t these bitch-ass infidels know that if these 2000-5000 year old artifacts fail to look like 500-year old Mohammedan pieces their whole project could be defunded? LOSE that monotheistic idiocy and GO FOR THE GOLD! Allahu Akbar, MoFo!

[arderkrag]

Among Muslims, the Temple Mount is called Haram al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary). They believe it was here that the Prophet Muhammad ascended to the “Divine Presence” on the back of a winged horse

...named Buraq. Coincidence?

[Dogbert41]

I think today would be a good time in history for Israel to remove Islam from her borders. Every damned polluted and abomnible stone.

[43north]

What is Beneath the Temple Mount?

That’s an easy one - Jimmy Hoffa.

[montag813]

Islamic council called the Waqf, has long forbidden archaeological excavations, which it views as desecration

What a bunch of crap. The Muslims have been caught dumping tons of Jewish history into dumpsters and carting it away. And it is all the Israelis own fault for permitting this historical crime, which only harms their legitimate claims, and aides the imaginary one of the Islamists. Just disgusting to see those footbaths defiling where the altars of Solomon's Temple once stood.

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

HaKotel ping

[Dr. Sheldon Cooper]

Well, the good news about all the crazy increased seismic activity is that any day now, that Dome of Abomination could be reduced to ruble in about a minute and a half.

[wally_bert]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9aYUahfigI

[NoLibZone]

What is Beneath the Temple Mount?

The long form Birth Certificate?

[SunkenCiv]

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[bert]

——golden-topped Dome of the Rock. -——

The dome is capped with gold colored anodized aluminum

Back in the early days of the internet I worked with kids at church researching Salomon’s temple and building a scale model. There are pretty good descriptions in the Bible. Surprisingly to me, there was a wealth of really solid information at Israeli web sites. The depth of the information and the quality of the web work was ahead of it’s time.

It amazed me that in East Tennessee we could access sites in Jerusalem to find very detailed information to magnify tremendously the Biblical descriptions.

[1010RD]

Do you know if the photo captioned “Both sides watch for any tilt in the status quo that threatens their claims to the Mount” is of a Muslim guard on one side and an Israeli guard on the other?

Also, where is that photo taken exactly?

[submarinerswife]

I saw an episode of “The Naked Archaeologist” that featured this sifting project. It is one of my favorite shows on History International.

This is fascinating.