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Leopard Temple
Archaeological site in Israel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Leopard Temple (Hebrew: מקדש הנמרים) is the name of an archaeological site of a 7,000 year old temple in the Uvda basin of the Negev in southern Israel.[1][2] The name refers to the Arabian leopard, which is no longer found in Israel.
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The site was investigated by Uzi Avner and Ora Yogev on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority.[3] It was first discovered in the early 1980s by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank that passed near it; the site was accidentally destroyed by IDF tanks in the late 1980s during a military exercise.[4]
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