Lamentations, literally -- Bones of pigs & foxes found on site of temple mount
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Lamentations, 518 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
In the first century a.c, in retaliation to rebellion by jews(?), titus razed the second temple of jerusalem to ground, a tragedy that is still mourned by its faithful. What has followed is a long wait, & a hope for a third temple. In an interesting development, bones of pigs & foxes have been recovered from the site
Other findings on the Temple Mount - jewelry, coins, pottery shards and architectural fragments - provide specific details of human life spanning several millennia. "We have material dating back to the 10th century BCE, the time of David and Solomon. We have material from the time of the kings of Judah. We have material in abundance from the early Christian period. This is very significant, because it is written in most history books that the churches moved to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher after it was built (it dates back to at least the fourth century), and that thereafter the Temple Mount was neglected and was a garbage heap. But now we have to build a new history, based on archeological evidence.
"We have fragments of capitals from church buildings. We have remnants of chancel screens that separated the presbytery from the nave of the church. We have several bronze weights for weighing gold coins from the Christian era. We have to rethink the role of the Temple Mount in the time of early Christianity. Was it a garbage heap? Or is that biased history? I think that history was ideological."
Barkay says that large quantities of animal bones have been found on the Mount. "Bones are very important. We have pig bones which had to have come from pagan or Christian times. We also have bones of foxes. And that is interesting, because in the Talmud we have a story about foxes which until recently I thought was a legend."
Bones of pigs & foxes. The misery never seems to end for shalim's den & her lovers.
Fittingly, the quraan mentions an ill-fated temple, & attributes no holiness to it
177 (Saying) If ye do good, ye do good for your own souls, and if ye do evil, it is for them (in like manner). So, when the time for the second (of the judgments) came (We roused against you others of Our slaves) to ravage you, and to enter the Temple even as they entered it the first time, and to lay waste all that they conquered with an utter wasting.
Utterly ruined. Apt.
al'hamd li Allaah Rabb al'aalameen