Stephen Smuts

New Exhibit: 2,000 Year-Old Temple Mount Coins

In Archaeology on November 5, 2009 at 21:05

There is a new exhibit of a 2,000 year-old Temple Mount coins opening in Jerusalem next week. Arutz Sheva, Israel National News, has more:

(IsraelNN.com) A very special exhibition opens next week in Jerusalem, revealing to the public for the first time all of the ancient coins uncovered in excavations at the foot of the Temple Mount.

The exhibit was organized by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the East Jerusalem Development Company with funding from the William Davidson and Estanne Fawer Foundation. It is intended to be the first of several exhibitions to be presented at the Davidson Center in the Jerusalem Archaeological Garden…

For more and some of the coins that will be displayed, click here.