Radioisotope dating has confirmed that an underground tunnel bringing water into Jerusalem was built around 700 BC, confirming the biblical story that it was constructed by King Hezekiah to provide ...

Modern radiometric dating of the Siloam Tunnel in Jerusalem shows that it was excavated about 700 years before the Common Era, and can thus be safely attributed to the Judean King Hezekiah. This is ...

The Siloam Tunnel, a shaft that carried water into ancient Jerusalem from a nearby spring, was probably constructed around 700 B.C., a new radiocarbon-dating study finds. That finding bolsters the ...

Radioisotope dating has confirmed that an underground tunnel bringing water into the city of Jerusalem was built around 700 B.C., confirming the biblical story that it was constructed by King Hezekiah ...

Workers repairing a sewage pipe in the Old City of Jerusalem have discovered the biblical Pool of Siloam, a freshwater reservoir that was a major gathering place for ancient Jews making religious ...

Turkey will never hand over to Israel a coveted Biblical-era ancient inscription that was found in a tunnel beneath Jerusalem during Ottoman times, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sept. 19. He ...

BIBLICAL accounts of the construction of a tunnel to bring fresh water to Jerusalem are probably true, say scientists who have radio dated it. The tunnel brings water 500 metres from the Gihon spring ...