In the area of Har Hotzvim in northwestern Jerusalem, excavators with the Israel Antiquities Authority are exposing the secrets of an immense stone quarry that likely supplied the primary building material for major projects in Jerusalem during the Second Temple period. Although only about an acre of the quarry has been revealed so far, it is clear that most of the stone taken from the site was in the form of massive 2.5-ton slabs that measured nearly 8 feet long. These immense blocks would have been used in major royal building projects such as those undertaken during the reign of […]
