FACT CHECK · TEMPLE MOUNT, AL-AQSA AND JERUSALEM
Claim: Fair: the Mount has barely been dug
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
True: the Mount itself has never been excavated, and no Temple stone is positively identified. But Israel Finkelstein: no scholarly school doubts the First Temple. Herod's outer walls still stand.
SOURCE
Haaretz, 24 Jul 2017 (T2); Wikipedia Temple Mount (T4)
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PEOPLE ALSO SAY
- “No archaeological evidence temple”
- “No evidence of the temple”
- “Never found temple”
- “No temple stone”
- “No temple existed”
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