As Israeli archaeologists recover artifacts from the religious site, ancient history inflames modern-day political tensions ...

The 220-square-meter (2,370-square-foot) structure, dating from the 8th century BCE ... an ancient crackdown on worship outside the Temple Mount. Standing stones are upright stones placed ...

complaining about the priests of the temple.... Nonetheless, it's clear among all the numerous groups within the Jewish community of the 1st century, that all of them, to justify themselves ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their ... to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance. There had been upsets: Jews had been banished ...

In the first century B.C., King Herod undertook a massive reshaping of the Temple Mount. He filled up the slopes surrounding the mount’s summit and expanded it to its present size. He enclosed ...