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Title: | A ridiculous project for non-Jewish antiquities | |||
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| Name: | Tosefta | | |||
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| City: | Tveria | State: | | ||
| "Ohel Yitzhak was built in 1917 but was abandoned during the Arab riots of 1936. It was then blown up by the Jordanians, along with every other synagogue in the Old City, after they captured the area in 1948. About 15 years ago, the Moskowitzes bought the site. They then financed the synagogue`s reconstruction, based on old photographs plus remnants of the destroyed building found at the site. In 2004, the IAA began excavating under Ohel Yitzhak. The principal find was a giant public bathhouse from the Mameluke period (the 14th century), which occupies the entire site. Its cloakroom was completely intact, and archaeologists also found remnants of the ovens that produced the steam and the vents that carried the warm air into the baths. According to IAA archaeologist Yuval Baruch, this is the most complete relic of the Mameluke period ever discovered in Jerusalem. Other relics found at the site come from the Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic and Crusader periods." http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/919750.html |
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