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The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת, romanized: Har haBayīt, lit. 'Temple Mount'), also known as the Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم الشريف, 'Haram al-Sharif'), and sometimes as Jerusalem's holy esplanade, [2] [3] is a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem that has been venerated as a holy site for thousands of years, including in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
[4] [1] Archaeology or surveying has rarely been permitted in the Temple Mount area, due to religious sensitivities. [5] Only four such surveys of the area as a whole are known from modern times; those of Charles William Wilson , Charles Warren , Claude Reignier Conder , and Conrad Schick, with Schick's access being the most recent and with the ...
The Nuba inscription is an early Islamic text that was found in a mosque near Hebron. [1] [2] [3]The inscription identifies the Dome of the rock as "Bayt al Maqdis" [4] or "The Holy Temple", [5] "Beit haMikdash" in Hebrew [6] [7] [8] This finding suggests that early Muslims were aware of the Temple Mount's significance as the site of the Jewish Temple and viewed the Dome of the Rock as a ...
A complete tablet was discovered in 1871 by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, in the ad-Dawadariya school just outside the al-Atim Gate to the Temple Mount, and published by the Palestine Exploration Fund. [1] [5] Following the discovery of the inscription, it was taken by the Ottoman authorities, and it is currently in the Istanbul Archaeology ...
Robinson's Arch was constructed as part of King Herod's renovation and expansion of the Second Temple, announced in 20–19 BCE. [3] It was built to link the Tyropoeon Valley street, a major traffic artery in the Second Temple Period, with the Royal Stoa at the southern end of the Temple Mount platform.
In July 2007 the Waqf began digging a 400-metre-long, 1.5-metre-deep trench from the northern side of the Temple Mount compound to the Dome of the Rock [41] in order to replace 40-year-old [42] electric cables in the area.
The expansion of the Temple Mount platform and the erection of the Royal Stoa required Herod's engineers to overcome the difficult topographic conditions. It was thus necessary to build 35 metres (115 ft) tall foundations above the slope of the Tyropoeon valley and equivalent 40 metres (130 ft) tall foundations above the Kidron.
The guarding of the Temple is similarly described in tractate Tamid and follows a commandment in the Torah to guard the Temple (Num. 18:1–5, Num. 1:53, Num. 3:38). According to several commentators ( Rambam ; Rash; Bartenura ), this was not for protection as the gates were locked at night, but to enhance the splendor of the building, just as ...