Angry Archaeologist

• Friday we heard a lecture by an archaeologist who has been sifting dirt trucked by the Temple-Mount wakf a few years ago from the Temple Mount to nearby valleys after they bulldozed an entrance to the new mosque in "Solomon's Stables."
• "Bulldozed" is a word archaeologists dislike intensely. Archaeologists work with trowels, spoons, and sieves. The lecturer said that the wakf sent away its own archaeologist before bringing in the bulldozers.
• Finding any remnants of the First Temple on the Temple Mount would disprove the revisionist view that there were no Jews, nor yet Children of Israel, 3000 years ago.

Copyright 2006 Jane S. Fox