Where the Ancient Temple of Jerusalem Stood
Extant “foundation stone” for the Ark of the Covenant is identified
It is almost axiomatic among scholars that no trace of the Jewish Temple is to be found on Jerusalem’s imposing Temple Mount.1
“The Temple is gone. Not a stone, not a trace, remains,” wrote the venerable J. L. Porter in 1887.2
More recently, Dame Kathleen Kenyon echoed the same thoughts. Just before her death in 1978, the eminent British archaeologist wrote a small volume entitled The Bible and Recent Archaeology that appeared posthumously in which she stated, “Absolutely nothing survives of the Temple built by Herod” (the Second Temple).3