Archaeological News: Archaeologists Return to Excavate Near Temple Mount in Jerusalem:
Beginning August 22, 2012, a team of archaeologists, other specialists, and students from the Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmond Oklahoma in the U.S. have returned to the site of the headline-making discoveries in the “Ophel” area near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The area contains structural features and artifacts bearing on thousands of years of human occupation.
The Ophel is the narrow promontory that straddles the southern edge of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and Old City, and is thought to contain monumental remains extending from at least the time of the early Israelite and Judahite kings through the Byzantine and early Islamic periods.
