“On the eastern slopes of the City of David, just a few hundred yards away from the Temple Mount, archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority claim to have uncovered a second temple.” - ...
An extremely rare and unusual stone seal from the First Temple period, about 2,700 years old, bearing a name inscribed in paleo-Hebrew script and a winged figure, was discovered near the Southern Wall ...
during which he also enlarged the Temple Mount. French Orientalist and archaeologist Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1923) posited in his book Archaeological Researches in Palestine 1873-1874 ...