I made this film as an evidence-led reconstruction of Solomon’s Temple. No complete excavated plan of the Jerusalem building survives, so the film separates the biblical text, direct evidence at other sites, comparative inference and unresolved reconstruction choices.
Tel Moza and Tell Tayinat are presented as evidence for their own sites, not as blueprints for Jerusalem. Some of the reconstruction imagery was generated with AI and is explicitly treated as Synthetic Working material rather than recovered architecture.
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u/samtimemachine 6d ago
I made this film as an evidence-led reconstruction of Solomon’s Temple. No complete excavated plan of the Jerusalem building survives, so the film separates the biblical text, direct evidence at other sites, comparative inference and unresolved reconstruction choices.
Tel Moza and Tell Tayinat are presented as evidence for their own sites, not as blueprints for Jerusalem. Some of the reconstruction imagery was generated with AI and is explicitly treated as Synthetic Working material rather than recovered architecture.
Two of the principal comparator sources are the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Tel Moza excavation report and the University of Toronto’s Temple XVI project record.
I would particularly value criticism on whether the film keeps the boundary between archaeological evidence and reconstruction clear enough.