The Stones of Herod’s Temple Reveal Temple Mount History - Biblical Archaeology Society

The Stones of Herod’s Temple Reveal Temple Mount History

Illustration of a stonecutter using a pickax to cut a channel in a limestone block, while another worker pours water over some logs stacked in the channel between two blocks. Photo: Leen Ritmeyer

Building and furnishing the Herodian Temple involved more than stone quarrying and laying, but the stones and foundations of Herod’s Temple can give us clues to Temple Mount history.