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I'll need a lot of convincing that this is "Writing and other marks left behind by ancient miners" and not "random vandalism". http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/wwfeatur

• salimmadjd 9y ago
  I had the exact thought. Also what writing is that? Historically you would assume it’s Roman Latin. If that’s one of their evidence, it does not point to King Solomon temple. As you would assume some Hebrew text. This article is a cross between tourism PR and faulty reasoning by an Indiana Jones wannabe
  • saalweachter 9y ago
    Greek would also be possible, which would put the writing no earlier than 500BC. To my eye it couldn't pass for the earlier Phoenician alphabet. When you're talking about a mine that was likely operated for centuries, it's also hard to say "everyone who worked here was a slave" or "everyone who worked here was a well-paid highly educated craftsman".