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Tango01 | 22 Sep 2016 1:01 p.m. PST |
"A group of archeologists and volunteers have discovered 600 tiles in the midst of tons of sediment removed from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem—100 of which, they assert, formed part of the opulent flooring that adorned the courtyard of the Second Temple, the main sanctuary of the people of Israel. The temple was reconstructed and expanded during King Herod's reign between 37 and 4 B.C.E. The effort was essentially a massive jigsaw puzzle. Following geometric principles and design patterns from other important structures of that period—Italian villas, the palaces of Herod the Great in Jericho, Herodium in Masada—Frankie Snyder of the Temple Mount Sifting Project restored seven designs from the majestic flooring that adorned the temple 2,000 years ago. The restoration was announced on September 8 at the 17th Annual Archeological Conference of the City of David. "It took them a long time to put all those pieces together in order to get the patterns," says Rami Arav, a biblical archeologist who heads excavations around Bethsaida and who is a professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. "It's a very important discovery. Imagine, the design was a puzzle that they figured out without knowing what the picture was. For the first time, we have the floor design of segments of the Temple Mount."…" See here link Amicalement Armand |
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