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September 7, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=284115

Massive Reservoir Discovered Beneath Western Wall

(Jerusalem Post) Melanie Lidman - Recently, part of a floor collapsed in a massive underground drainage ditch deep below the Western Wall as archeologists were taking it apart. Archeologist Eli Shukron looked into the hole and was blown away by the size of the room they had uncovered. Based on previous research and excavations in the area, Shukron was immediately convinced they had stumbled on an enormous underground well from the First Temple Period, the first evidence of stored water next to the Temple. The reservoir measures 12 meters by 5 meters by 4.5 meters and uses the same type of plaster as other reservoirs from the First Temple Period. The handprints of the laborers who added the plaster are still visible.

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