Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount
The Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount is a group of archaeologists, intellectuals and other prominent individuals in Israel formed in response to concerns about damage to antiquities from excavations at the Temple Mount and alleged attempts by the Jerusalem Waqf to remove archaeological evidence of a Jewish Temple at the Temple Mount. == History == The committee was founded in January 2000 by archaeologists Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University, Gabriel Barkay, and other prominent individuals in response to a protruding bulge discovered in 2000 in the Temple Mount's southwest corner.