It seems there were two, though many believe there was only one: the great temple in Jerusalem built by the Biblical King Solomon. The first temple stood on the Temple Mount but no material evidence of its existence has ever been found. However, in 2012, Israeli archaeologists unexpectedly discovered another site in some ways similar.

Filip Čapek is a professor at the Dept. of the Old Testament at Charles University’s Protestant Theological Faculty. Since 2019, he and colleagues have been contributing to the dig at Tel Moza excavation site near Jerusalem. The site of a remarkable Iron Age temple.

Linda Štucbartova, a CU alumna and a member of the CU Commercialisation Council, has also studied at Oxford and Geneva. She has experience in the public and private sphere, technology startups, mentoring programs for women and transferring scientific knowledge into practice. How does it all come together?

He first glimpsed the ancient world through the viewfinder as a teenager on a family holiday in Tunisia and for David Rafael Moulis it was a turning point. His camera eventually led him to Israel, as a member of a team from the Protestant Theological Faculty at Charles University. 

How did a country that exported oranges in the 1950s become a world leader in innovation, and can that success be replicated? This is what the participants of the 3rd Women's Mission to Israel, including Pavla Hubálková from Forum, found out.

"I think archaeology is an integral part of working with ancient texts," says Filip Čapek of the Protestant Theological Faculty. In our one-minute video, he reveals what the discovery of the temple at Tel Moca means.