Israel 2010 Temple Dig Recovery

During the Muslim escavation of Solomon's Stables, many antiquities, artifacts, and unknown finds were basically dumped. Due to one young man's perserverance, a program is now in place to salvage the piles and allow archaeologist to review them. This operation is ran through the ity City of David.
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This is a larger example of what was thrown away. Keep in mind that most of the temple mount was not allowed excavation at any time due to the area being Holy. With that, remember many different time periods are layered here with different rulership, influences, and cultures.

This project not only sifts through all the dirt and rubble, but they verify knowledge they currently have and also gain new knowledge as each area is sort and sifted. This is extra work as the usual layers have been mixed together, so many different time periods may be found in one bucket of rubble.

Although our guide/teacher here is quite efficient as an archaeologist, it is like playing with puzzles, except the puzzles pieces from many different boxes and styles have been thrown together.

For a small fee visitors can participate. It was more our advantage than theirs, as we learned history, identification of pieces, how to sort, and the relevance of each item. They also take volunteers for daily, weekly, monthly, etc time periods to help with the project.

In our search through three trays we found Byzantine pottery, mosaic tiles, a Muslim glass tile with gold leaf, many other pottery pieces, Roman glass, plaster, metal, shells, bones, some pieces so very small and others quite nice in size. Our eyes are not trained to find the details or spot all the pieces, and so in the end our work is checked and verified, and we learn a bit more.