Return to Zion and the Second Temple Period
Return to Zion and the Second Temple Period

Names of the Destroyers of Jerusalem found in the City

In the picture: An inscription in Latin left behind by the Romans was discovered at the foot of the Temple Mount in excavations by Prof. Benjamin Mazar in the 1970s. The inscription mentions Emperor Vespasian and his son Titus, who destroyed Jerusalem and subsequently became emperor himself.