page_title: Temple Mount Sifting Project
hierarchical_section_title: Temple Mount Sifting Project
caption_attribution_description: English: Temple Mount Salvage Operation, Ein Tsurim National Park, at the foot of Mount Scopus, Jerusalem.
context_page_description: The Temple Mount Sifting Project is an archaeological project begun in 2004 whose aim is the recovery and study of archaeological artifacts contained within debris which was removed from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem without proper archaeological care.
  The project has made heavy use of crowd-sourcing, utilizing many volunteers and tourists to help sift the debris, and is actually the most exposed to the public archaeological project in the world.
  The project sifting facility was located until 2017 Tzurim Valley national park, and since June 2019 has moved to the Masu’ot Lookout at Mt. Scopus.
context_section_description: The Temple Mount Sifting Project (TMSP; formerly known as the Temple Mount Salvage Operation) is an archaeological project begun in 2004 whose aim is the recovery and study of archaeological artifacts contained within debris which was removed from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem without proper archaeological care.
  The project has made heavy use of crowd-sourcing, utilizing many volunteers and tourists to help sift the debris, and is actually the most exposed to the public archaeological project in the world.
  The project sifting facility was located until 2017 Tzurim Valley national park, and since June 2019 has moved to the Masu’ot Lookout at Mt. Scopus.
caption: Temple Mount Sifting Project, Emek Tzurim National Park, 2004
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