Archaeology · 7 · Hezekiah and Isaiah

The Siloam inscription's dramatic history

After its discovery, someone tried to cut the inscription from the tunnel wall and broke it into six pieces. The Ottomans exhibited it, then shipped it to Istanbul.

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The tunnel runs about 580 yards under East Jerusalem from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 108

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