The Israel Antiquities Authority recently announced the discovery of an ancient tunnel near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel in Jerusalem. The tunnel is approximately 165 feet (50.3 m) long, up to 16 feet (4.9 m) tall, and about 10 feet (3.05 m) wide. The entrance is reached from the surface via an ancient staircase that descends to the tunnel. Experts do not yet know the tunnel’s purpose. It was not an ancient water channel, as it was not plastered, and there is no underground water source nearby. Researchers are currently theorizing that the tunnel was cut to reach a chalk layer for quarrying building stones or producing lime. Significant tunneling projects like this are known from antiquity, the most famous being Hezekiah’s tunnel (2 Kgs 20:20).
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