“Here’s a bowl fragment from the First Temple period,” he says. “A Byzantine coin here. A Crusader arrowhead made of iron. This is a Hasmonean coin, from the dynasty that ruled Judah in ...

Worshippers would place a coin into the machine and receive holy water to bathe themselves with before entering the temple. At the end of the day, the slot machine would be emptied of its coins and ...

It's a tradition of temple imagery that emerges here, and continues to the present day. And on the other side of the coin is King Kumaragupta, also with a peacock but, unlike Kumara, he doesn't ...