New 360 Panoramas

Of the church of Beatitudes, Transfiguration, and Capernaum

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News Article on Temple Mount as "powder keg"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111603669.html

New book on the Temple Mount

Oleg Grabar and B. Kedar, 

Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade 

Universtiy of Texas Press, 2010

ISBN-10: 0292722729

Reviewed at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/middleeast/15mount.html?_r=1

New Jewish coins found near Temple Mount

Newly discovered coins from the first Jewish revolt (AD 66-70) are now on display at the Davidson Archaeological Park south of the Temple Mount.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-11-11-jewish-temple-coins-exhibition_N.htm

Some of the coins reflect temple ideology of the Jewish rebels.

Qumran cave 1

A 360 panorama of Qumran cave 1.

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Along with others as well

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Dead Sea Scrolls Cave 1, part 2

This photo shows the cave in the center of the photo.

Here is a closeup of the cave.

Interior of the cave. The pottery is modern.

Dead Sea Scroll Cave 1, part 1

I visited the Dead Sea today, and hiked up to cave one. Here are a few photographs of the ridge of the Dead Sea escarpment leading up to the cave. The cave is near the center of the photos where a large pillar like rock is to the left of a square black crevase.

Here is a closeup with the large pillar-like rock. The cave is the second black spot on the left at ground level.