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July 31, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5216

Mass Grave Revealed in Underground Cave on Jerusalem's Temple Mount

(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - During a conference on Thursday at Megalim - the City of David Institute for Jerusalem Studies - veteran archaeological journalist Benny Liss screened a movie recorded a few years ago that clearly shows thousands of skeletons and human bones in what appears to be a mass grave in a spacious, underground cavern in the area of the Mercy Gate, near the eastern wall of the Temple Mount but just outside it. Liss, a correspondent for Israel's Channel 1 TV, raised the possibility that the skeletons were the remains of 6,000 Jews, mostly women and children, killed on the Temple Mount when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple. Antiquities Authority staff have since resealed the cave.

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