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Our New Mobile Sifting Program
The Mount Comes to You
Hello everyone, we have some news to share with you. The Temple Mount Sifting Project is renewing its activity outside the lab! For the first time in the history of archaeological research in Israel –the site will be…
Better Than A Museum
Visit Us!
Come visit us in our research lab! We miss you! For our supporters, we are offering tours of our research laboratory where you can see all of our special finds and learn about them from one of our expert archaeologists. It is one…
International Women’s Day 2018
Girl Power at the Sifting Project!
Today is International Women’s Day and I want to gloat about the amazing women working for the Temple Mount Sifting Project. We really have a special workplace because we have such a high percentage of…
Jerusalem Day and the Six-Day War
Artifacts from the Temple Mount Sifting Project tell the story of the unification of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
Find of the Month: How Much Does it Weight? – Nicolle Perez
Possible First Temple scale weight found on Temple Mount
Channukkah Miracles at the Sifting Project
Video with Zachi Dvira talking about the symbolic finds of the first year of the Sifting Project.
The Israel Experience
MASA interns Renata and Hannah help the Temple Mount Sifting Project in the lab with PR and Research.
Archaeological Evidence of the Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount
Historical sources and selected artifacts given to show proof of the First and Second Jewish Temples on the Temple Mount. Jews and Christians have a real and documented relationship to the Temple Mount.
Symbols of Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
Found by Sifting Project: Coin from First Revolt (69/70), the last year of the Temple shows lulav and etrog: symbols of Sukkot.
Beverly Ungar: Archaeology – A Lifetime of Love
“This is a perfectly wonderful, normal, regular stone. Well done!” Have you seen one of our green-shirted staff members patiently teaching one of our youngest volunteers? This was probably Beverly.
Tag Archive for: coins
YHD Silver Gerah Coin (4th century BCE)
A miniature silver coin, bearing the Ancient Hebrew letters YHD (Yehud), spelling out the word "Yehud,"or Yehuda. The YHD Coins, bearing the name of the Judah protectorate, a province of the Achaemenid (Persian) Empire, were the first to be minted in Jerusalem, or indeed, by any Jewish authority.
Obverse: completely worn (unphotographed).
Reverse: A barn-owl, next to the letters YHD.
Date: 4th century BCE.