September 23rd News

I actually forgot to do the News yesterday. Here's both days in today's post.

New stories as of 2:40 PM:

Quarry Used For Jewish Temple Unearthed In Israel
Canada.com
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Archaeologists have found an ancient quarry where King Herod's workers may have chiselled the giant stones used to rebuild the second Jewish temple in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=b7b41a0a-adac-410b-bd6a-96c71aa08e57&k=26507
Also published at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/23/AR2007092300267.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL2362809220070923

Grab Your Toga: Roman bath for sale at £300,000
Times Online
A ROMAN bath house with remains of plunge pools, steam rooms and clothes lockers is for sale in the town of Battle, East Sussex. Built for officers of the Roman navy in about AD90, the baths are on the market for a modest £300,000...
http://property.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/property/buying_and_selling/article2511780.ece

Buried Treasures
Daily Echo
AERIAL photographs show how archaeologists are unveiling a Roman settlement near Dorchester...
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.1707718.0.buried_treasures.php

Archaeologists Unearth Quarry Used For Herod's Temple
Live PR
(live-PR.com) -JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli archaeologists on Sunday said they have discovered a quarry that provided King Herod with the stones he used to renovate the biblical Second Temple compound _ offering rare insight into construction of the holiest site in Judaism...
http://www.live-pr.com/en/archaelogists-unearth-quarry-used-for-r1048157302.htm

Quarry For Temple Mount's Giant Rocks - Found
Arutz Sheva
The Antiquities Authority announced today that it has found the quarry that supplied the giant stones for the building of the Temple Mount. The quarry is located in what is now one of Jerusalem's newest neighborhoods, Ramat Shlomo (also known as Reches Shuafat), between Ramot and French Hill. The quarry was found in the course of an archaeological rescue dig prior to the construction of a neighborhood school...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123754

Israeli Archaeologists Find Temple Mount Quarry
Middle East Times
JERUSALEM -- A quarry that supplied blocks of stone for the construction of the second Jewish Temple has been uncovered in an area north of Jerusalem, an Israeli archaeologist said Sunday...
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070923-105435-5277r