Coin find changes date of Temple Mount completion

[heepiepow]

Saw this on Yahoo News and thought it was cool. Coins found suggest Herod didn't complete construction on the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary (or at least didn't even start the Western Wall):

Newly found coins underneath Jerusalem's Western Wall could change the accepted belief about the construction of one of the world's most sacred sites two millennia ago, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday.

"The find changes the way we see the construction, and shows it lasted for longer than we originally thought," said the dig's co-director, Eli Shukron.

The four bronze coins were stamped around 17 A.D. by the Roman official Valerius Gratus.

http://news.yahoo.com/sheds-light-ancient-jerusalem-092556159.html

 

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[Tuberale]

"...and shows it lasted for longer than we originally thought."

Construction still takes longer than anticipated. Nothing changes.

Nineteen-hundred-years later didn't Robert Frost say roughly the same thing?

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast."

OK, ok, yep Frost was talking about Mending Fences. But he calls them walls, didn't he?

 

[kc10bull]

Here is an additional news site from MailOnline: Coins from 17AD found under Jerusalem's Western Wall hints sacred site NOT built by Herod




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...stern-Wall-hints-sacred-site-older-Herod.html

 

[Salvor6]

Well at least the Jews are brave enough to change the history books when they find evidence to change history. Here, the schools still teach that Colombus discovered America!