Destruction

Archaeologists from the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) and Tel Aviv University have discovered huge sycamore wood support beams charred during the destruction of the First Temple. The First Temple, built by the biblical King Solomon , was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC, and the Second Temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Researchers found the well-preserved beams during an excavation at the Givati Parking Lot site in the City of David , Jerusalem’s Walls National Park. Melted Plaster Preserved the Wooden Beams Efrat Bocher, the excavation director, explained that the beams were relics from a collapsed building destroyed by “the intense fire of the First Temple’s destruction ” over 2,600 years ago. “The beams appear to have