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Shaky foundations.(Up Front)(discovery of Muslim cemetery in a museum construction site)(Brief article)

American Prospect, The,  March, 2007  

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Who could object to a new Museum of Tolerance? In 2004, the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center announced it would erect a version of its museum in the heart of Israeli West Jerusalem, designed by Frank Gehry himself. The digging commenced--only to stop when it began turning up human skeletons.

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Turns out the site had been a Muslim cemetery dating back to the 13th century, and active at least until the 19th century. Muslim tradition ...

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