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According to the Hebrew University, archaeologists in Tiberias, Israel, unearthed an ancient mosque, but what’s even more interesting was that it was found beneath another very old mosque. Located close to the bottom of Mount Berenice, the site of the mosque has been known about since 1952 but experts during that time thought that it was the remains of a Byzantine marketplace. But when archaeologist Katia Cytryn-Silverman from the Hebrew University started excavating the location back in 2009, she realized that it was instead an ancient mosque from the 8 th century CE. Further excavations t...

The discovery of such an old building offers a rare opportunity to examine the original foundations. Archaeologist Katia Cytryn-Silverman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Hebrew University) Cytryn-Silverman estimated the mosque was 22 by 49 meters in size, with a courtyard, making it smaller than the slightly more recent mosque discovered on top of it, which is 78 by 90 meters and dates from a hundred years later, between 720 CE and 740 CE. A clue to when the older mosque was built came from earth used as filling in the foundation, which was brought in from elsewhere. By consulting wit...