Thursday, September 03, 2020

The Sifting Project on the Temple Mount mystery hole

THE TEMPLE MOUNT SIFTING PROJECT BLOG: OUR COMMENTS ON THE UNKNOWN UNDERGROUND CISTERN THAT WAS DISCOVERED ON THE TEMPLE MOUNT. Who better to comment on this story?

The hole probably opened into a late Second Temple-era drainage channel or passageway. Blocking it without letting archaeologists examine it is a lost opportunity. The Waqf deserves all the bad publicity it gets for this.

Background here and here.

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