Ilan Ben Zion
This 2013 aerial photo shows the site of the Al-Juma (Friday) Mosque in Tiberias, northern Israel. Archaeologists said recent excavations at the ancient city of Tiberias have discovered the remnants of one of the earliest mosques in the Islamic world. The foundations of the Muslim house of worship date to the late 7th century. (NTEP/ David Silverman and Yuval Nadel via AP) January 28, 2021 - 6:00 PM
TIBERIAS, Israel - Archaeologists in Israel say they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque â believed to date to the earliest decades of Islam â during an excavation in the northern city of Tiberias.
Jan. 14, 2021
Lately we were apprised of an odd phenomenon that occurred almost simultaneously in a number of places: the mysterious appearance of shiny metal pillars, monolithic in appearance (from the Greek: mono, “one”; and lithos, “stone”). These monument-like structures were placed in remote locations, difficult to access, in different corners of the globe.
The story begins in the United States. A team from the department of public safety in Utah, flying low by helicopter over one of the remotest corners of the state’s colorful sandstone desert areas, in an effort to track wild sheep populations, suddenly spotted a glistening metal column amid the red rocks, something that seemed to have come straight out of a science fiction movie. The helicopter landed close by, the team filmed the mysterious structure and alerted law enforcement officials, in this case the rangers of the state’s parks department, who launched an investigation. Then, wondrously, a few days later