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Did you know... that 150-year-old wooden models of the Temple Mount(example pictured) are important to archaeology, as their creator was the last European ever permitted to survey its foundations?
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
... that 150-year-old wooden models of the Temple Mount are important to archaeology, as their creator was the last person ever permitted to survey its foundations? Source: Gibson & Jacobson 1994 "Religious sensitivities have discouraged scientific investigation of subterranean features within the Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem, which incorporates the area of the ancient Temple Mount. In consequence, the mystery of this sacred place has been heightened, providing fertile ground for flights of fancy concerning the two Jewish temples that formerly occupied the site. Even serious scholars have had to make do with hypotheses concerning the position and layout of these ancient complexes… However, for a brief period in the second half of the nineteenth century a handful of intrepid European explorers, in particular Charles Wilson, Charles Warren, Claude Regnier Conder, and Conrad Schick, succeeded in lifting this veil of secrecy and visited many of the underground chambers that pepper this sacred site… They left records of some 45 subterranean chambers that they classified as cisterns as well as other cavities and structural remains. Much of this material was published by them (Wilson 1866: 42-45; Warren 1871:204-17; Warren and Conder 1884; Schick 1887:72-87; 1896: 292-305), but many important details were confined to manuscript and deposited in the archives of the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) in London. Some of the most reliable and detailed information was recorded by the German-born Conrad Schick… Yet, Schick, with his sharp eye for detail, subsequently provided superior information about the subterranean cisterns of the Haram."
QPQ: - Not done Overall: The nomination is still needed for a work to be done. You must provide a citation at the lead section in 2nd paragraph and at the 5th paragraph of the "Current location of the models" section. Another remaining problem is a QPQ. JeBonSer(talk | sign)11:18, 7 September 2023 (UTC)Reply