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• Whereas in the destruction of A.D. 70, the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, in A.D. 135, the Romans went one stage further. Jerusalem, the Holy City, was utterly and completely destroyed. It was razed to the ground, ploughed over like a field, and the Romans re-built a completely new Roman city on its ploughed ruins. That new city was known as Aelia Capitolina. It was the New Jerusalem. It was dedicated to the gods of Rome, rather than the God of Israel.