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You've been searching and digging for years all over that area and the only thing you have found was some passing reference to a King Ahab in an Assyrian scripture.Ahem..Despite the complicity of researching and digging and the massive looting and destruction over the years the archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem are infinite, and the biggest one is of course the the old city which is built also over the walls of the second Temple.
That isn't King Ahab, you ignorant asswipe. That image is actually over 2000 years old which is under an ancient Roman arch. I saw it with my own eyes during my visit to Italy over the summer. The image depicts the sacking of and theft of the temple in Jerusalem. Romans built the Colosseum with the stolen gold from the temple, and of course it was over 50,000 Jewish slaves they imported that built the Colosseum.
The Colosseum was then stripped by the Pope and Christians, and what you see in the Vatican today is all marble taken out of the Colosseum.
The Arch of Titus (Italian: Arco di Tito) is a 1st-century honorific arch,[1] located on the Via Sacra, Rome, just to the south-east of theRoman Forum. It was constructed in c. 82 AD by the Roman EmperorDomitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus to commemorate Titus' victories, including the Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD. The Arch of Titus has provided the general model for many of the triumphal arches erected since the 16th century—perhaps most famously it is the inspiration for the 1806 Arc de Triomphe in Paris,France, completed in 1836.
Significance
The Arch provides one of the few contemporary depictions of Temple period artifacts.[7][8]
The seven-branched menorah and trumpets are clearly depicted. It became a symbol of the Jewish diaspora. In a later era, Pope Paul IV made it the place of a yearly oath of submission. Until the modern State of Israel was founded in 1948, many Jews refused to walk under it.[9]
The menorah depicted on the Arch served as the model for the menorah used on the emblem of the state of Israel.[10]
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