Quarry used for Jewish temple unearthed in Israel
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Archaeologists have found an ancient quarry where King Herod's workers may have chiselled the giant stones used to rebuild the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.
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PARK CITY -- Park City's Temple Har Shalom, Utah's fastest- growing Jewish congregation, will celebrate the groundbreaking for its synagogue on Sunday, Oct. 8, 10:30 a.m.  The ceremony will take place at the site on Highway 224 (next to the Colby School).
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JERUSALEM -- The Israeli government and several banks hold assets belonging to Holocaust victims worth more than $200 million, according a parliamentary report released yesterday that harshly criticized authorities for not doing enough to locate the accounts' owners.
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Palestinians are preparing to bury leader Yasser Arafat in the spruced up grounds of his battered West Bank headquarters on the soil of his beloved Jerusalem.
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A publicly funded project has unearthed a huge burial ground in Washington State.
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Israel's cabinet decided on Sunday to press ahead with archaeological digging outside Jerusalem's most contentious religious site despite Arab protests, a government official said.
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A view of the Dome of the Rock mosque, located in the al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam&#39;s third holiest site and known by Jews as Temple Mount, in Jerusalem&#39;s Old City Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004.
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With dozens of policemen looking on, an Israeli bulldozer began work Tuesday on an archaeological excavation next to the Holy Land's most explosive religious site, drawing Palestinian protests and condemnations from the Arab world.
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JERUSALEM -- Archeologists in Jerusalem have identified the remains of the Siloam Pool, where the Bible says Jesus miraculously cured a man's blindness, researchers said yesterday -- underlining a stirring link between the works of Jesus and ancient Jewish rituals.
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Israelis and Palestinians demonstrated Tuesday in protest of Israel's construction repairs at the Temple Mount site in Jerusalem, sacred to Muslims and Jews.
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An Israeli archaeologist said the site of an archaeological dig outside a disputed holy compound in Jerusalem might contain a Muslim prayer room, and the work drew renewed condemnation Sunday.
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Â· South African find is twice as big as the Cullinan Â· Expert predicts feverish bidding on huge stone
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By MATTI FRIEDMAN MASADA, Israel - An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress famous as the scene of a mass suicide nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Israel is installing webcams to film its controversial dig near Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site.
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Archeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that may finally illuminate the lives and religious practices of the people ...Comment
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Archaeologists think they've found a cave where John the Baptist baptized many of his followers &#151; basing their theory on thousands of shards from ritual jugs, a stone used for foot cleansing and wall carvings telling the story of the biblical preacher.
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Archaeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered what appears to be an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that might finally illuminate the lives and religious ...Comment