This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Indiana Hone Line about a discovery in Jerusalem and a high-tech park designated construction started and they discovered an enormous sandstone quarry. Not just any quarry, these stones linked

by style and cut and striation are to the stones in the temple mount and the tunnels underneath the temple

mount.

In fact, these stones are linked to many of the roadways around Jerusalem, some of them weighing two and a half tons.

Jerusalem Sandstone, Indiana will explain the excitement of this discovery

after 2,000 years. More of this tonight.

This goes to the core of a lot of the stories we have discussed over the years about the large and the large stones that were used in the tunnels and in the building of the temple.

Well, it turns out they found, as they were preparing to build a building in Israel's

in Jerusalem's high-tech park, they found the largest quarry ever discovered, and it goes back to the years

that when the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, they found stone vessels, they found other things which indicated that the

significance of this particular location extends about 3,500 square

meters and just one section of a massive quarry where stones were taken out that weigh two and a half tons.

And these impressive then stones were used both on the temple mount and King Herod's during the great during his reign

from 37 to 4 BC up to his grandson King Agrippa 37 to 44 CE used these for the impressive public buildings, palaces and

fortification. So it sort of solves a mystery about where these was rock pain

from and then now the question was how they got it from there down to the temple mount and to other locations

including the discoveries on the the Roman road the road that was

used the pilgrims road the stones are exactly the same

size and thickness as those that were found here at this quarry