article_snippet.sent: Yet it looks likely it will remain a mystery: scholars did not get the chance to document the designs before workmen began laying the new carpet, paid for by King Abdullah II of Jordan, the country which remains the custodian of the area's Muslim holy sites.
article_snippet.sent: Jamal Al Quda, a member of a group of Jordanian carpet layers who received Israeli visas for the job,  said it was necessary to affix the base layer of thin dark felt before rolling out the carpet above it. '
article_snippet.sent: It comes off my hand,' Jamal Al Quda, a member of a group of Jordanian carpet layers who received Israeli visas for the job,   added, rubbing Jamal Al Quda, a member of a group of Jordanian carpet layers who received Israeli visas for the job,   fingers.
article_snippet.sent: This latest work, pictured last Sunday, is being paid for by King Abdullah II of Jordan .
article_snippet.sent: The initiative, called the Temple Mount Sifting Project, is conducted under the auspices of the Elad Foundation, a group that also purchases Arab homes in contested parts of East Jerusalem and helps move Jews in.
article_snippet.sent: Israel Hasson, the director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, said once the government body learned about the renovation, the government body made arrangements with the Waqf to send an archaeologist to document some of the floor patterns, but others already had been covered by the maroon and beige carpeting. '
highlights_snippet.sent: But new flooring laid before Israeli scholars were able to document pattern .
  