Archaeologists think the temple dates to the first century B.C., before the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
Archaeologists in southern Russia say they've discovered the ruins of a 2,000-year-old synagogue — a rare discovery given that buildings for Jewish worship from this period are seldom found outside the Holy Land.
Image 1 of 3Ruben Bunyatyan, a spokesman for the Volnoe Delo Foundation — the Russian charity that funds the Phanagoria excavations — said analysis of marble tablets and inscriptions indicated the synagogue dated to the first century B.C. The Volnoe Delo Foundation was founded by the Russian billionaire and industrialist Oleg Deripaska, who has been sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Justice for violating U.S. sanctions, which he disputes.
Jewish presenceA Jewish house of prayer at Phanagoria was mentioned in an inscription from A.D. 41 found at another ancient Greek city on the Black Sea shore. It also seems to appear in an inscription from A.D. 16. found at Phanagoria itself, but that inscription was heavily damaged and may not be entirely reliable, Bunyatyan said.
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