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The Hasmoneans built an extension to the south of the Temple Mount that Solomon had built. Herod later expanded the Temple Mount again to the south, the west and the north. We can still see the bend in the eastern Temple Mount wall at the point the Hasmoneans attached their extension to the eastern wall of Solomon's Temple Mount. |
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| This is a photo of the east wall of the Temple Mount. The straight seam that Galyn Wiemers is pointing to (visible in the center of the photo, from the bottom of the wall up through the first six courses of the stones) is at the south end of the east wall of the Hasmonean extension of the Temple Mount. In the right half of this photo (from the straight seam to the right edge of the photo) are stones from the Hasmonean addition to the Temple Mount wall. The second extension to the left (south) of the Hasmonean extension was done by Herod beginning in 19 BC. These southern additions covered up most of the remains of the Seleucid fortress called the Acra. | ||||
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