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Aug 31, 2023 · Found at the southern end of Hezekiah’s Tunnel, the Siloam Inscription recounts how the men digging the tunnel worked in two directions—one from the north, the other from the south—and met in the middle.
Dec 20, 2022 · Two Israeli archaeologists have successfully deciphered an 8th century BC inscription that was left on a wall in an underground tunnel located just outside the walls of the City of David (ancient Jerusalem). The inscription references the deeds of the legendary King Hezekiah, matching certain passages from the Book of Kings and Book of ...
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Nov 9, 2023 · The Siloam Tunnel, dug from the Gihon Spring underneath Jerusalem through 533 m (1720 ft) of bedrock to the western Pool of Siloam, perfectly matches the biblical description of Hezekiah’s ‘conduit’.
Oct 31, 2022 · The famous inscription, written in late-eighth-century BCE script, describes how two teams dug the tunnel from opposite ends and met in the middle. How they managed to do it remains somewhat of a puzzle.
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Ayreh Shimron answers questions and moderates an archaeological discussion **A new BAS scholar’s study page discusses the construction and chronology of the tunnel. Featuring a web-exclusive discussion by acclaimed archaeologists Aren Maeir and Jeffrey Chadwick.** Our article explaining how the two teams of tunnelers who dug the sinuous path of Hez...
Graham Field Tipton, United Kingdom For more information about this topic, subscribe to our BAS Library. Read Hershel Shanks’s “Sound Proof” along with Dan Gill, “How They Met: Geology Solves Long-Standing Mystery of Hezekiah’s Tunnelers,” Dan Cole “How Water Tunnels Worked” and thousands of other articles on ancient Israel.
Stephen G. Rosenberg, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research Jerusalem, Israel Ayreh Shimron responds: The following three letters raise similar questions, and have therefore been addressed by Dr. Shimron in a single response at the end.
The second concerns the famous tunnel dug by King Hezekiah in the late eighth century B.C.E. to bring water into the city in preparation for an imminent siege by the Assyrian monarch Sennacherib, as recorded in the Bible.
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Feb 12, 2013 · This video depicts Jerusalem’s ordeal under the threat of Assyrian siege and Hezekiah’s creative solution to the city’s resulting water problem. Hezekiah’s water system was an engineering wonder that included the hewing of a 533-meter-long tunnel in the depths of the rock.
