Recent excavations on Shmuel Hanavi Street in Jerusalem by the Antiquities Authority have yielded that archaelogists believe could be a quarry used by Herod to build the Second Temple over 2,000 years ago. Dr. Ofer Shion, who is managing the dig at the site for the Authority, told reporters in a news conference Monday that the size of the stones discovered in the quarry indicated that they were used to build large public projects in Jerusalem during the Herodian era, "and among those projects was the building of the walls of the Temple," he said.

Only a small portion of the quarry has been uncovered so far, Dr. Shion added. "The hi-tech of those days surrounded better ways to extract and move stones. According to historical sources Herod had over 10,000 workers in these quarries, excavating and moving stones for his many projects."

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