Ruins of an early mosque found by Sea of Galilee
AP, TIBERIAS, Israel
Archeologists in Israel said that they have discovered the remnants of an early mosque — believed to date to about 670 — during an excavation in Tiberias.
This mosque’s foundations, excavated just south of the Sea of Galilee by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, point to its construction roughly a generation after the death of the Prophet Mohammed, making it one of the earliest Muslim houses of worship to be studied by archeologists.
“We know about many early mosques that were founded right in the beginning of the Islamic period,” said Katia Cytryn-Silverman, a specialist in Islamic archeology at Hebrew University who heads the dig.