0 Photo Credit: Shai Halevi / Israel Antiquities Authority. Yoav Vaknin of TAU at the site. Every year on the 9th of Av, Jews around the world remember the destruction of the First Temple.

The directors of the excavation, Yiftah Shalev of the Israel Antiquities Authority and Yuval Gadot of Tel Aviv University, explained: “We dated the destruction of the structure to 586 BCE based on ...

The network of tunnels beneath the Temple Mount has been the subject of much mystery and controversy, but the cisterns – some of which are linked to biblical sources – are just as fascinating.