Buried beneath the streets of Jerusalem for more than 2,600 years, charred wooden beams from the destruction of Solomon’s Temple have finally seen daylight.
Archaeologists digging in the City of David have uncovered massive wooden beams, charred black and twisted by the inferno that consumed Solomon’s Temple during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC. The timbers, once part of a roof over an inner courtyard near the Temple, did not simply survive by chance. As the building burned and its roof collapsed, melted plaster sealed the beams beneath the rubble, preserving them for more than two millennia.
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