From the What Good are a Few Bronze Coins Department....
Lots of media buzz today over a new discovery at Jerusalem's Western Wall. A small cache of bronze coins minted around 17 A.D. by the Roman official Valerius Gratus could re-write the history of one of the world's most sacred sites.
Herod has generally been credited with building the complex known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. But Herod died in 4 B.C., which means that if he oversaw the completion of the complex, it would not be possible for coins minted 21 years later to be found underneath the massive foundation stones on the Western Wall.
Read the full story here and also in the Daily Mail.
