JERUSALEM (JTA) — A public water reservoir dating to the First Temple period was unearthed next to the Western Wall. The discovery unveiled late last week shows that “It is now absolutely ...
"The column capitals, identified with royal construction of the First Temple period [10th-6th Century ... during the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC. Yaniv Berman/Israel Antiquities ...
(JTA) — A 2700-year-old toilet from the days of the First Temple in Jerusalem has been discovered ... what people living in the First Temple Period might have eaten and to better understand ...
the temple in Jerusalem remained the spiritual center of their worship. The temple had been rebuilt three times. The first was when it had been destroyed in 587 BC by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia.