The Oldest Datable Chambers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Abstract

Who would pass up the opportunity to venture beneath the Ḥaram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem? Religious sensitivities have long discouraged investigation of the Ḥaram. Yet, for a brief period in the second half of the nineteenth century a handful of European explorers visited many of the underground chambers of the Ḥaram. Gibson and Jacobson have excavated in the archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) in London to recover crucial data about the earliest structure of the Temple Mount