Solomon's Temple

Underground Empire: Charles Warren, William Simpson, and the Archeological Exploration of Palestine

“…61 For three years, Warren was indefatigable in his exploration of the area underneath the Temple Mount, and his findings remain to this day the most complete record of what is located there. 62 Warren's work also helped promote the idea that the historic Jerusalem was not the city that appeared on the surface but rather the one hidden beneath, borne out in titles like his own Underground Jerusalem (1876) as well as Frank DeHass's Buried Cities Recovered (1882) and George St. Claire's The Buried City of Jerusalem (1887). 63 As Karl Baedeker explained in his 1876 guidebook to the region, "It is only by patiently penetrating beneath the modern crust of rubbish and rottenness, which shrouds the sacred places from view," that travelers could reach "the Jerusalem of antiquity."…”