Stone Quarry for Herod’s Second Temple found

Second Temple Stone Quarry Discovered

Sixty people worked on this dig in Jerusalem.They also discovered pottery shards, coins and metal plates that were used in the block process.

From Dr. Sion (the excavation director):

It is clear that Herod began quarrying closest to the Temple and worked away from it: first he exploited the stone on the nearby ridges and subsequently he moved on to quarry in more distant regions.