¡ª¡ªTo Benichidov¡¯s surprise, Christians were also initially opposed to the excavation work
He said: "They believe that the purpose of the excavations is to lay the foundation for the Third Temple, and that all archaeological expeditions are just a cover for a disgusting conspiracy. All I can say is that if you don't hear these rumors with your own ears, they are It would certainly appear to be the product of a feverish imagination. ¡°However, whether I was joking or not, people have asked me to my face more than once: Are you planning to rebuild the temple? And these people are historians and archaeologists, with exceptionally outstanding intelligence and talents."
The most vehement opponents of the excavation were the Jewish authorities, and the government tried hard to obtain their consent before deciding to excavate. When the rabbis negotiated, the two chief rabbis immediately rejected the proposal.
? Rabbi Nishim, the chief rabbi of the Shefadi Church, disagreed with the developer¡¯s plan on the grounds that the area proposed by the developer to be excavated was a holy site, so the developer asked him for further explanation.
"And he said that their excavations may prove that the Wailing Wall is not actually the Western Wall of the Temple Mount. He also asked, since the excavation work has nothing to do with scientific investigation, what is the significance of such excavations?"
The excavation work of Rabbi Utmanze of the Ashkenazi Church will involve some difficult issues in Jewish law
The biggest question is: If you discover the Ark of the Covenant during this archaeological excavation, what will be the result? Jewish legend says that the Ark of the Covenant was buried deep under the earth.
And Professor Mazhar said without knowing it: "That's a miracle!"
But the highly respected rabbi told the learned professor that this was exactly what he believed. This was because, from the perspective of Jewish law, the children of Israel were "unclean" and were therefore prohibited from touching the cabinet.
Therefore, before the coming of the Savior, the idea of ????excavating the Temple Mount is unthinkable.
This great rabbi¡¯s view of the Ark of the Covenant is entirely based on orthodox concepts. Since the destruction of the Second Temple, Judaism has indeed believed that all Jews are unclean, and it is said that only the arrival of the true savior can end this situation.
Despite this, they worked hard to gain approval from the rabbis and also secured approval from two other monotheistic religions, Christianity and Islam, both of which came from the belief in Yahweh in the Old Testament.
Excavation work has begun. Although the excavation site is located outside the Temple Mount, some handicrafts have been unearthed, which belong to the First Temple period. However, as can be imagined, no signs of the Ark of the Covenant were found.
A large number of unearthed cultural relics belong to the end of the Second Temple period, the Muslim period and the Crusade period
Therefore, it can be concluded that the excavation work of Professor Mel Ben-Dolf certainly did not confirm the Jewish claims about the burial of the Ark of the Covenant, but his excavation did not finally deny those legends.
"There seems to be only one way to confirm them, and that is to excavate inside the Temple Mount
Centuries before the science of archeology was born, the Knights Templar had already excavated the interior of the Temple Mount, but they were unable to find the Ark of the Covenant.
Despite this, one thing still needs to be clarified: Has anyone ever excavated the interior of the Temple Mount in modern times? If so, what did they find?
Experts posed these questions to Dr. Gabi Barkai, an expert on the First Temple period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He said bluntly: ¡°Since the birth of modern antiquity, no one has ever attempted to excavate the interior of the Temple Mount.¡±
"Why?"
"Because it is the Holy Land, Muslim authorities have banned all forms of scientific research there, which they consider to be the most serious form of divine reading. So the Temple Mount has always been a mystery to archaeologists. Most of what we know about it is Theoretical and interpretive in archaeology we only have those discoveries of Charles Warren and of course those of Parker. If I remember correctly, Parker did excavate the interior of the Temple Mount in 1910. However, he He's not an archaeologist, he's a lunatic. He was looking for the Ark of the Covenant."
It is impossible to determine whether Dr. Baquet said that Parker was "mad" because Parker was looking for the Ark of the Covenant, or because Parker was a lunatic who went to search for the Ark of the Covenant, or because Parker had obvious symptoms of madness before digging into the interior of the Round Temple.
Warren was a young adjutant of the British Royal Academy of Engineering. In 1867, the London-based "Palestine Development Fund" commissioned him to excavate the Temple Mount. However, the scope of his excavations was almost the same area, namely Beyond the southern edge of the Temple District
A century later, Melburn-Dove and his colleagues conducted a more thoroughExcavate
The difference between the two excavations is that although Varun also actively sought permission to excavate inside the Temple Mount, his efforts were rejected by the Ottoman Turkish authorities who controlled Jerusalem at the time
Not only that, on one occasion, Wallen dug a tunnel extending northward and was preparing to dig under the outer wall of the Temple Mount. However, the sound of the sledgehammers and other tools used by the workers alarmed the people above their heads. Prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque
As a result, Varun and his men were attacked by a hail of stones from the prayers, causing riots, and the governor of Jerusalem, Izet Pasha, immediately ordered an indefinite suspension of their excavation work.
Despite the difficulties, Varun was not discouraged. He managed to persuade the Turks and resumed excavation work. Later, he secretly tried to dig tunnels under the Temple Mount several times.
He planned to draw a map recording the location of all ancient ruins he might encounter but he was unable to realize this ambition and only dug the foundations of the outer walls of the temple area.
He certainly did not find the Ark of the Covenant, but there is no evidence that he ever intended to find it. His main interest was in the Second Temple period, in which case he made many archaeological discoveries of lasting scholarly value
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However, the situation with Montague Brownslow Parker was different. Parker was the son of Earl Murray. He went to Jerusalem in 2001 and publicly stated that he was looking for the Ark of the Covenant. He did not make any academic contributions.
That expedition was described as ¡°excellent by any standard.¡± The idea for the expedition came from a Finnish mystic named Walter Juvilius.
In 1906, Juvimis submitted a paper to the Swedish University, proposing his insights into the destruction of Solomon's Temple by the Babylonians. He said that he had reliable information about the location of the hidden "gold-covered Ark of the Covenant," saying that the location was in the Holy Within the palace area
He also said that he carefully studied relevant passages in the Bible and confirmed the existence of a secret tunnel that leads from a certain part of the city of Jerusalem to the interior of the Temple Mount. After studying the excavation report of Charles Warren, he became convinced This secret passage is just south of the El-Aqsa Mosque and in the area that Varun has already excavated.
Juvelius believed that if the Ark of the Covenant was found, the value of the Ark would be approximately US$200 million, so he used US$200 million as bait to find investors to fund an excavation expedition with the purpose of identifying the secret passage. location and clear it out for removal of the Ark of the Covenant
His fund-raising efforts initially had little success until he met Montague in London.
Brownsroe Parker was 30 years old at the time and was very supportive of Juvelius's cause. Parker solicited support from the British nobles and merchants, and soon raised a very useful fund of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
So, the excavation work began. By August 1909, they established the excavation expedition headquarters on the Mount of Olives. Under the Mount of Olives is the Temple Mount.
At that time, Jerusalem was still in the hands of the Ottoman Turks and the governor, Amusebey Pasha, was not known for his prudence and loyalty.
Parker used a bribe of $25,000 to get the pasha to approve his action. He also used another small bribe to buy Sheikh Khalili, the hereditary guardian of the Rock Rotunda. Khalili agreed to take Parker and his party into the Holy Land. , and remain indifferent to their activities there
For obvious reasons, the work of Parker and his team was carried out late at night. The treasure hunters disguised themselves as Arabs and spent a week digging in the southern part of the Temple Mount, close to the El-Aqsa Mosque.
Both Parker and the Irishman believed that the Ark of the Covenant was buried there. However, their efforts came to nothing. So, just before dawn in the middle of the night on April 18, 1911, Parker turned his attention to the Rotunda and to " The cornerstone of the world, the legendary deep cave underground
At that time, the steps leading to the "Well of Souls" had not yet been built, so Parker and his men had to use ropes to hoist themselves and their equipment into the cave. One end of the ropes was firmly tied to the "Foundation of the World"
They entered the cave, lit the lanterns, and began to walk along the floor of the cave. They used up energy to reach the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. Before they could find out whether there were other holes below, they were in disaster. Although the hereditary guard Sheikh Khalili was bribed, another assistant guard of the mosque unexpectedly appeared
It is said that he decided to spend the night on the Temple Mount because his home was full of guests that day. He heard the sound of digging under the rocky round temple, quickly ran into the temple, peeked under the "Well of Souls", and was horrified to find several people. A wide-eyed foreigner is digging into the sacred ground with a pickaxe and a shovel.
Both sides immediately made the decisionViolent reaction: The terrified assistant guard of the mosque let out a piercing roar, then ran while shouting and disappeared into the darkness to gather the believers.
These British people also smartly realized that the gambling was over and retreated in a hurry
They didn¡¯t even return to their camp. They immediately left Jerusalem and ran to the port of Jaffa. Fortunately, a motorboat they rented was moored there.
Not long after they escaped, a large group of hysterical people rushed to the Temple Mount. Parker and his party escaped the group, but the unlucky Sheikh Khalili ended up being very unlucky.
That morning, large-scale demonic chaos broke out in Jerusalem. Amusei Bey Pasha was suspected of being an accomplice of foreigners. This was not unfair to him. He was immediately condemned and insulted.
He responded by ordering an immediate blockade of the Temple Mount and signing several orders: Arrest the foreign treasure hunters as soon as they arrive in Jaffa. He undoubtedly took this step to comfort his guilty conscience.
However, rumors immediately spread that Parker had found and abducted the Ark of the Covenant, and the Muslim and Jewish leaders protested loudly, demanding that the holy relic should never be taken out of the country.
The Jaffa police station and customs authorities received the emergency telegram, arrested the British who had fled here, seized all their belongings, and conducted an extremely thorough search. However, they found nothing. This result put them in a dilemma.
So they confiscated the British's luggage, but agreed to let the British return to their boats to create a healthy atmosphere in which to continue interrogating them.
However, as soon as Parker and his colleagues boarded the boat safely, they ordered the sailors to start the boat immediately. They ran fast.
British archaeologists did not participate in the next excavation to search for the Ark of the Covenant. The excavation began in the 1920s and was concentrated on Mount Nebo. "The Biography of the Maccabees" says that before the destruction of Solomon's temple, the prophet Jeli Mi hid the Ark of the Covenant on Mount Nebo
The main initiator of this excavation was an eccentric American explorer who liked to wear Arab-style robes. Although he was a man, he had a strange name, Antonia Frederick Votel.
He thoroughly surveyed Mount Nebo and its adjacent Mount Piga, and with truly formidable ingenuity announced that he had discovered a secret passage which was closed off by something like a wall, which Voltaire had no intention of closing. push down
However, when he looked at the wall with a flashlight, he found an ancient inscription. He copied the inscription verbatim and took the copied inscription back to Jerusalem. He found a student at the Hebrew University. A "scholar" who helped him decipher the hieroglyphics
The inscription is: The golden ark is buried here
Regrettably, Voltel was unwilling to disclose the name of the scholar who provided this translation. In the subsequent sensation, no one came forward to accept this honor.
Later, Voltaire could not produce the original inscription he copied. After that, he never returned to Mount Nebo to take out the Ark of the Covenant from the secret passage.
Half a century later, a new winner emerged, taking up the baton dropped by Voltel. That winner was also an American explorer named Tom Closter. Some of his previous "discoveries" included the Tower of Babel. Noah's Ark and Adam's City
Later, this gentleman obtained some papers left by Voltaire by non-detour means, which apparently included a brief sketch of the blocked secret passage on Mount Nebo, where the Ark of the Covenant is said to be. buried in that mountain
Mount Nebo is located in modern-day Jordan, so Kloster flew to Jordan and traveled with some enthusiastic colleagues from an organization called the International Institute for Restoration History, headquartered in Kansas, USA. Winfield, their mission is of course to rescue the Ark of the Covenant
To do this, they camped on Mount Nebo for four days, much to the consternation of the Franciscan monks at the "Holy Land" church on the mountain.
They guard the Byzantine-era church that is said to have been built on the site where Moses is buried. Over the past few decades, these monks have conducted careful professional archaeological excavations in the Mount Nebo area.
Needless to say, those Franciscan monks never found the Ark of the Covenant, and neither did Kloster, at least not in the Mount Nebo area. However, after Kloster's excavations on Mount Nebo ended, he and his investigation team Moved to nearby Mount Piga
They found a ditch in the mountain and believed that they could follow it to find the "secret passage" drawn in Voltel's sketch
Part of the ditch was blocked by a stone slab, which made them even more excited.
At night, they removed this weak obstacle, and sure enough they found a passage in front of them. They followed the passage underground.about 600 feet
There they saw a wall exactly like the one Voltaire had described. Without hesitation they pushed it down. Behind it was a hole cut in the rock, about seven feet square, according to Kloster. Say, there is a gold-covered rectangular box inside, 62 inches long, 37 inches wide, and 37 inches high.
It is said that there are two poles next to the box, which are exactly the same as the poles used to carry the Ark of the Covenant in the Bible. There is also a cloth bag on one side of the box. Kloster estimates that there is a statue of a winged angel inside, which was placed there before. on the mercy seat
¡°These Americans concluded that they had found the sacred Ark of the Covenant. They did not move it, they did not touch it, and they did not open it. They took color photos of it with a camera with a flash.
They then left Jordan, returned to the United States, and immediately notified United Press International of the discovery.
As a result, the international newspaper syndicate published a story that its reporter said was "more dramatic than anything I have ever reported in my life."
So, was the Ark really found?
The photos taken in that stone cave are obviously crucial evidence. If qualified archaeologists have the opportunity to study those photos, they can confirm that the American sensationalism is true.
Therefore, Kloster has refused to show those photos to anyone. This approach is difficult to understand. He said that according to God's command, these photos can only be seen by the London banker David Rothschild. , because this man is a direct descendant of Jesus Christ and the one who was chosen to build the Third Temple
And the Ark of the Covenant will be taken out of its hiding place and placed in the Third Temple
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