Report: Herod's Temple Quarry Found

September 24, 2007 By SEAN GAFFNEY, Associated Press Writer Report: Herod's Temple Quarry Found (AP)

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths run through an ancient quarry at an archaeological site in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 23, 2007. The quarry, according to Israeli archaeologists, provided stones that were used to construct the compound known as the Temple Mount to Jews and Noble Sanctuary to Muslims nearly 2,000 years ago. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

(AP) -- Israeli archaeologists said they have discovered a quarry that provided King Herod with the stones he used to renovate the biblical Second Temple compound - offering rare insight into construction of the holiest site in Judaism.



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