Robinson's Arch on the Western Wall of the Temple Mount

In 1841, the head of the department of Holy Scripture at the Theological College in New York, Edward Robinson, in his work on Jerusalem, suggested that there was once an arch with a bridge over a paved street in the Terapeon Valley for passage from the Upper City to the Temple Mount. Excavations from the beginning of the 20th century confirmed this assumption. The arch had a height of 11 meters above street level. It was allegedly destroyed by rebels during the Bar Kokhba rebellion in order to block the Romans from accessing the last stronghold of the uprising on the Temple Mount.