(Washington Post) Guy Gugliotta - In a rare success by scholars attempting to match existing archaeological structures with events in the Bible, researchers say they have shown conclusively that Jerusalem's King Hezekiah built the meandering Siloam Tunnel beneath the city around 700 BC. The tunnel runs 1,749 feet from Gihon Spring to the Siloam Pool beneath the ancient section of Jerusalem known as the City of David. In research reported in the journal Nature, geographer Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem used radiocarbon and other radioactive isotope testing to establish the age of the tunnel, confirming that the tunnel was built about 700 BC and is almost certainly Hezekiah's "conduit," mentioned in II Kings 20:20 and II Chronicles 32:3-4.
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