More on those ritual baths at the Ophel

TEMPLE MOUNT WATCH: Monumental Second Temple Period ‘House of Mikvehs’ Discovered on Jerusalem’s Ophel. The fruits of our multi-year excavations go public (CHRISTOPHER EAMES, Armstrong Institute of Biblical Archaeology).

“Monumental Second Temple-Period Purification Complex Uncovered at the Foot of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem”—so reads the headline of a press release issued by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem this morning.

The fruits of our five-year excavation on Jerusalem’s eastern Ophel, co-directed by professors Uzi Leiber and Orit Peleg-Barkat and in partnership with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are beginning to show!

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I have already posted on this story here. But the Armstrong Institute is co-excavator in this project, so this report, which has some additional details, is straight from the source.

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