{"id":61686,"date":"2018-06-17T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61686"},"modified":"2018-06-08T06:57:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T04:57:03","slug":"01-05-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=61686","title":{"rendered":"Rare and Ancient Jewish Coins Found on Temple Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Rare and Ancient Jewish Coins Found on Temple Mount<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

JNS and United with Israel Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Land of Israel constantly reveals hidden treasures, testifying to its rich history and the Jewish people\u2019s longstanding ties to the land. This time, archaeologists discovered on the Temple Mount coins minted by the Jewish people.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Millennia-old and exceptionally rare coins from among the first-ever minted by Jews were discovered on the Temple Mount, evidence of the\u00a0Jewish people\u2019s deep ties to the hallowed site.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The coins bear the letters \u201cYHD,\u201d or Yehud,\u201d the Aramaic name for the biblical kingdom of Judea, and are dated to the end of the fourth century BCE.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to one of the co-directors of the project, Zachi Dvira, only five other coins of this kind have been found in the 150 years of archaeological digging in ancient Jerusalem sites.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dvira noted that Jewish pilgrims would bring offerings of first fruits of the season to the Temple around the time of the\u00a0Shavuot holiday<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and would often convert their value to silver in the days of the Second Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also noted that the Temple was a center of commerce and public administration, making it a prime site for finding coins.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThese were the first coins ever minted by Jews,\u201d Dvira said in an interview with Israel\u2019s\u00a0Ynet news<\/em>. \u201cThey express the people\u2019s return to their land after the Babylonian exile, and their ability to hold and maintain diplomatic ties with the ruling empire\u2014then Persia\u2014similar to our relations with the United States today.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He noted that the New Israeli Shekel also bears the letters \u201cYHD,\u201d exactly as they appear on the newly unearthed coins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Muslim Attempts to Erase Traces of Jewish History<\/strong><\/p>\n

The five small coins, three in pristine condition and two showing signs of wear, were discovered as part of the Temple Mount Sifting Project, an archaeological initiative started in order to sift thousands of tons of dirt illegally excavated and dumped in the Kidron Valley by the Islamic Waqf in 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Waqf excavations significantly compromised the archaeological integrity of the Temple Mount and sparked outrage in Israel, leading many to suggest that the Waqf was intentionally\u00a0attempting to eradicate evidence<\/a>\u00a0of two\u00a0Jewish Temples<\/a>\u00a0that stood on the Mount for more than 800 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sifting project, which has operated since 2004 in the Emek Tzurim National Park, aims to salvage religious and historical artifacts from the rubble, as well as to educate the public about the veracity of Jewish history on the Mount.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though state funding for the project halted in 2017, the Temple Mount Sifting Project is now aiming to bring mobile sifting units of Temple Mount dirt to Israeli schools and communities, enabling children to learn about Jewish history in Jerusalem and to participate in the sifting themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

More than half a million artifacts have been pulled from the rubble so far by 200,000-plus participants, including 6,000 ancient coins.<\/span><\/p>\n

These abundant archaeological discoveries attest to the Jewish people\u2019s rich history in the region, proving that the May 2017 UNESCO resolution denying the Jewish connection to Jerusalem is historically false.<\/span><\/p>\n

In October 2016, the international body said the Jewish people have no ties to the Temple Mount.<\/span><\/p>\n

Incidentally, archaeologists and historians have yet to discover a single artifact from the \u201cPalestinian Era.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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