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According to the Hebrew University, archaeologists in Tiberias, Israel, unearthed an ancient mosque, but what’s even more interesting was that it was found beneath another very old mosque. Located close to the bottom of Mount Berenice, the site of the mosque has been known about since 1952 but experts during that time thought that it was the remains of a Byzantine marketplace. But when archaeologist Katia Cytryn-Silverman from the Hebrew University started excavating the location back in 2009, she realized that it was instead an ancient mosque from the 8 th century CE. Further excavations then revealed that another even older mosque was located underneath it. ....
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. This mosqueâs 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 Mohammad, making it one of the earliest Muslim houses of worship to be studied by archaeologists. âWe know about many early mosques that were founded right in the beginning of the Islamic period,â said Katia Cytryn-Silverman, a specialist in Islamic archaeology at Hebrew University who heads the dig. ....