The Jerusalem Post reports
For the second time in the past year, archeologists have uncovered a Second Temple Period quarry whose stones were used to build the Western Wall, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday. The latest archeological discovery was made in the city’s Sanhedria neighborhood, located about two kilometers from the Old City of Jerusalem. The quarry was uncovered during a routine “salvage excavation” carried out by the state-run archeological body over the last several months ahead of the construction of a private house in the religious neighborhood.
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Dozens of quarries have previously been found in Jerusalem, but these are the first two that archeologists have uncovered which they believed used in the construction of the Temple Mount. A few dozen quarries were likely used in the building of the Temple Mount, said Prof. Amos Kloner, a former Jerusalem district archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority. He said it was “no surprise” that the first two had been found, and noted that the neighborhood where the latest quarry was found was in itself built on top of a quarry.
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