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Siloam tunnel

c. 700 BCE · 8th century BCE · Also known as Hezekiah's tunnel

The Siloam tunnel, also called Hezekiah's tunnel, is an ancient water channel about 533 metres long cut through the rock beneath the City of David in Jerusalem. It carries water from the Gihon spring to the Pool of Siloam and is usually dated to King Hezekiah's preparations for the Assyrian siege of 701 BCE. An inscription found in it in 1880 describes the two teams of diggers meeting.

Siloam tunnel
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Siloam tunnel. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/siloam-tunnel
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