The Dome of the Rock

In further episodes, what we're going to be looking at is the idea that actually the dome of the rock wasn't the same building all the way through. It was am quite late in being built a and it it suffered earthquakes, it suffered fires. And so even if there had been an inscription, it had to get through all those different incidents without a scratch. Is hard to believe that all that lovely mosaic work would have just miraculously survived. So i think there were other really compelling arguments for his case,. The fact that they're in good condition is just a further sign that they re relatively young and not as old as we thought they were.