the Temple mount in Jerusalem two thousand years ago led to a graded road was built in the early Pontius Pilate during the season, i.e. earlier than hitherto thought. This result the children of israel, archaeologists have come to coin the discovery of the basis.
the Roman Pilate was the Judean governor, who was represented by the occupying power after over a decade of the ’20s and’ 30s. His name will live because according to the Bible, he condemned Jesus to death.
Pilate early structure has previously been possible to ensure only the aqueduct, the bridge-like aqueduct. His name is found a few in Judea defeated the bronze coins, a copper ring and stone tiles, but no contemporary image of him is not known.
Tel Aviv university and the Israel antiquities authority researchers have now added Pilate’s early discovery on the list of the 220 meters of the handsome path that leads to Silwanin the palestinian part of the city from the Temple mount.
40-century coins found only on the rocks
the Street builders was whirled across the street tiles under more than a hundred coins. Backfill was obtained in the excavations also recovered ceramics, glass and animal bones.
Younger plants are from 17-31. The road construction will not be able to start until at least the year 31.
the Later money of the absence of discoveries among the in turn told me that kiveämistyö also graduated from Pilate’s term of office. It took a year of 37, according to some sources, maybe a bit longer.
40-century coins found in Jerusalem from other excavations clearly more than in the previous decades of change. 40-ies of the money was struck for political reasons, particularly, says archaeologist Donald Ariel .
on the Rocks they are also found in these excavations.
to Cover 10 000 tons of stone
the Road, whose excavation has been going on for six years, has been named the Pilgrim road. According to scientists, the case must be pilgrims of the important route for purification of the place, Siiloan from that pond, up the Temple mount.
Pilate during it is jerusalem’s second temple. The first was according to tradition built by king Solomon three thousand years ago, the second was built in the 500-century before our era.
the researchers believe the Jerusalem of the build up of the jews clamber the handsome road to the temple to participate in three important pilgrimage event – easter, the feast of tabernacles, and the harvest celebration.
at Least eight meters wide and a total of 600 metres of the route the stone was mined ten thousand tons of limestone, the researchers calculate. The larger tiles were two and a half tons in weight.
the stones of requires considerable skill and much labor, which would not have bother been any connection; it must be specifically for the pilgrims intended mahtitie, the researchers concluded.
– If this had been any route from point A to point B, it didn’t have to make so impressive, says archaeologist Joel Uziel .
jerusalem was destroyed, buried in the road
Pilatuksella may according to researchers, have special motives of the fact that the road is so wide and carefully made.
Maybe he wanted to reduce the occupied and the occupier of the tension between or the target was Jerusalem a similar appearance as the Roman empire in general. The third explanation could be Pilate’s desire to emphasize its own importance in large building projects.
– All these find support in the historical writings. Probably the reason was some kind of combination, says archaeologist Nashshon Szanton .
the Road to the tomb was probably in the year 70, when the Roman army defeated the rebelling jews and destroyed Jerusalem.
the researchers found the paving stones on top of the pile from the ashes and rubble of the arrow tip, decanter centrifuges and other weapons, as well as burnt trees and collapsed stone buildings remains.
the Excavations continue to the street along the shops and kievarien of the ruins. To date research is available freely in Tel Aviv university’s archeology department of a magazine (you move to another service).
the World’s most historic places?
Jerusalem, destroyed the Roman troops burned the also temple. Only the retaining wall remains have been preserved of the jews as the main prayer place.
the temple on the mountain are also standing on the rock mosque and al-Aqsa mosque. They are from 700 century and belong to the muslim holy most places.
the World is hard to find another piece of land, which would be historically as multi-layered as the Temple mount. There have left their mark also so cana lamanites than the greeks, so the Persian and byzantines as the crusaders and the ottomans.
politically, the Temple mount may well be the world’s explosive point, and also the archaeology is there as elsewhere in Jerusalem, what major extent also on the policy, which the zionist organisations have a strong foothold.
They also consider tielöydön confirm that palestinian East Jerusalem is an ancient part of jewish Jerusalem and reasons to keep Jerusalem the jewish state’s indivisible capital.
the Palestinians have questioned the conclusion. A concrete display of the road the purpose of use is missing, critics say.
the Tunnel opening of the six years of excavations were the last at the end of June. Tsafrir Abayov / EPA”Bad archaeology”
the Policy is dictated also the way in which Pilate early the road was raised. For that purpose, dug a tunnel Silwanin the palestinian part of the city below. In the same way in Jerusalem is to do archaeology before.
the Method has attracted fierce criticism as well as above the location of the house damage because of that, for scientific reasons.
Archaeology in the normal way is to dig from the ground surface down to, when deposits are temporal developments. Continue to populated areas simply to dig in places where there are buildings.
Horizontal digging is considered scientifically almost worthless.
the tunnel excavations have bad archaeology, and the Israel museum agency can be proud, said the agency’s leading archaeologists include Jon Seligman and Gideon Avni the agency’s internal correspondence, which Haaretz magazine (you move to another service)got his hands on.
hard-handed use of history seeps in an area not on the other hand, not shy away from palestinians. For example, in the millennium I don’t care were an ancient monument, european or archaeological practices, when bulldozers cleared the temple in the mountains space the underground to the prayer hall to the.
the Case of the main image: Herod not Pilate fiun you amici (F. A. Ludy after J. F. Overbeck 1845). Wellcome Trust (switch to another service) / CC-BY-4.0 (switch to another service)
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