Who Built the Dome of the Rock?
The Dome of the Rock was completed in 691 CE — the oldest surviving work of Islamic architecture anywhere in the world, dated by its own inscription. The Al-Aqsa Mosque followed in 715. But beneath these stones lies something even more contested: thirty-five acres that have never been systematically excavated. This episode traces the full architectural history of the Temple Mount — Umayyad builders, Crusader occupiers, Ottoman tiles, Jordanian gold — and then asks why the dirt underneath remains untouched. From Moshe Dayan's 1967 status quo arrangement to the nine thousand tons of soil…
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