Remains of Second Temple Found?

Archeologists believe that a massive structure--7 meters long (23 feet)--uncovered during reckless, unsupervised Muslim construction on the Temple Mount is a wall from the Second Temple. No remnant of the Temple has ever been uncovered before; the Western Wall is only what remains from Herod's support structure to support the mount upon which the Temple was constructed.

Archeologists believe that heavy construction equipment has damaged the Temple wall, and that untold quantities of archeological treasures are being destroyed during the mosque construction. Previously, extraordinary finds were made in Jerusalem garbage dumps following unsupervised Muslim Temple Mount construction.

Remains of the Jewish second temple may have been found during work to lay pipes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem, Israeli television reported Thursday.

Israeli television broadcast footage of a mechanical digger at the site which Israeli archaeologists visited on Thursday.

Gaby Barkai, an archaeologist from Bar Ilan University, urged the Israeli government to stop the pipework after the discovery of what he said is "a massive seven metre-long wall."

If confirmed, this may be one of the most significant archeological finds in history. The Temple is central to the authenticity of Judaism and Christianity, but is held in suspicion by some archeologists, typified by this quote:

There is virtually no archaeological evidence that the united kingdom of David and Solomon ever existed. David’s Jerusalem...was a poor, miserable village...there exists no archaeological evidence for Solomon’s Temple.

Of course, Palestinian leaders are intent on eradicating evidence of the Temple, despite classical Muslim commentaries that explicitly state that the "far mosque" (al-Aqsa) from which Muhammed is claimed to have ascended to heaven from, was actually the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem:

"We are fed up with this crap nonsense of the Temple Mount," said Nasser Abu Aziz, the deputy commander of Fata's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the northern West Bank.

"We do not know where this story came from. There is no historical or archeological proof that your legendary Temples existed. We are sick of this story. But Allah warned us that Jews will look for an excuse in order to corrupt life on earth, so we are not surprised from the fact that you keep raising this issue."

Muhammad Abdul-El, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization, said the Jewish Temples "existed only in your dreams.

"Go look for your stupid Temple elsewhere. And I am not saying this for political reasons. I say that the enemy invented this story in order to justify its occupation of Jerusalem."

Abu Abdullah, considered one of the most important operational members of Hamas' so-called military wing, accused all Jews of being pathological liars.

"Stop lying and believing your own lies. Even if there was such a thing (as a Jewish Temple) do you really believe that Solomon, who was a prophet, would have built a Temple in the place that Allah wanted for the Al Aqsa Mosque?"

See also: Archaeologists: Muslim Dig Damaged Temple Wall