Thursday, July 1, 2010

Archaeology: The Jerusalem escape tunnel

In August 2007, while searching for ancient Jerusalem’s main road, Israeli archeologists stumbled across the drainage channel that the Jews used to escape the invading Romans in A.D. 70.


Pottery shards, vessel fragments and coins from the era were also discovered inside the channel, attesting to its age.


The half-mile channel was dug beneath what would become the main road of Jerusalem. Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city’s Jewish residents crowded into it to hide and later flee the attack through Jerusalem’s southern end unnoticed.


Kyle Campbell

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