Hadrian Surfaces

They found him, again.

Hadrian.

Parts of a huge, exquisitely carved statue of the Roman Emperor Hadrian have been found at an archaeological site in south-central Turkey. The original statue would have stood 4m-5m in height, experts estimate.

His achievements include the massive wall built across the width of northern Britain which bears his name.

(and he razed Jerusalem)

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Hadrian's attempts to re-found Jerusalem were little more than disastrous. Had Jerusalem been destroyed by Titus in AD 71 then it had never been rebuilt since. At least not officially. And so, Hadrian, seeking to make a great historical gesture, sought to build a new city there, to be called Aelia Capitolina. Hadrian planned a grand imperial Roman city and it would boast a grand temple to Juliter Capitolinus on the Temple Mount.

The Jews, however, were hardly to stand by and watch in silence while the emperor desecrated their holiest place, the ancient site of the Temple of Solomon. And so, with Shimon Bar-Kochba as its leader, an embittered Jewish revolt arose in AD 132. Only by the end of AD 135 was the situation back under control, with over half a million Jews having lost their lives in the the fighting. This might have been Hadrian's only war, and yet it was a war for which only really one man could be blamed - emperor Hadrian.

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