Excavations at the Temple Mount
A number of archaeological excavations at the Temple Mount—a celebrated and contentious religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem—have taken place over the last 150 years. Excavations in the area represent one of the more sensitive areas of all archaeological excavations in Jerusalem.
Excavations adjacent to Robinson's Arch
Robinson's Arch: the springers are still jutting out of the Western Wall
Concrete supports in the tunnel.
Plan of The Noble Sanctuary (Haram al-Sharif) from "The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem" by Charles Warren
Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Wilson, KCB, KCMG, FRS was a British Army officer, geographer and archaeologist.
Charles William Wilson
Charles William Wilson; Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. 1865
Charles Wilson, sometime between 1858 and 1861