Editing Second Temple (section)

===Walls and gates of the Temple complex===
After 1967, archaeologists found that the wall extended all the way around the Temple Mount and is part of the city wall near the [[Lions' Gate]]. Thus, the remaining part of the [[Temple Mount]] is not only the [[Western Wall]]. Currently, [[Robinson's Arch]] (named after American [[Edward Robinson (scholar)|Edward Robinson]]) remains as the beginning of an arch that spanned the gap between the top of the platform and the higher ground farther away. Visitors and pilgrims also entered through the still-extant, but now plugged, gates on the southern side that led through [[colonnade]]s to the top of the platform. The [[Southern wall]] was designed as a grand entrance.<ref name="EMazar">{{Cite book |last=Mazar |first=Eilat |title=The Complete Guide to the Temple Mount Excavations |year=2002 |publisher=Shoham Academic Research and Publication |location=Jerusalem |isbn=978-965-90299-1-4 |pages=55–57}}</ref> Recent archaeological digs have found numerous {{lang|he|[[mikveh]]s}} (ritual baths) for the ritual purification of the worshipers, and a grand stairway leading to one of the now blocked entrances.<ref name="EMazar" />