Posted on 09/09/2007 3:30:54 PM PDT by blam
Archeologists find ancient tunnel used by Jews to escape Roman conquest of Jerusalem
The Associated Press
Published: September 9, 2007
JERUSALEM: Israeli archeologists on Sunday said they've stumbled upon the site of one of the great dramatic scenes of the Roman sacking of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago: the subterranean drainage channel Jews used to escape from the city's Roman conquerors.
The ancient tunnel was dug beneath what would become the main road of Jerusalem in the days of the second biblical Temple, which the Romans destroyed in the year 70, the dig's directors, archaeology Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa and Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority, told a news conference.
The channel was buried beneath the rubble of the sacking, and the parts that have been exposed since it was discovered two weeks ago have been preserved intact.
The walls — ashlar stones one meter (3 feet) deep — reach a height of 3 meters (10 feet) in some places and are covered by heavy stone slabs that were the main road's paving stones, Shukron said. Several manholes are visible, and portions of the original plastering remain, he said.
Pottery sherds, vessel fragments and coins from the end of the Second Temple period were discovered inside the channel, attesting to its age, Reich said.
The discovery of the drainage channel was momentous in itself, a sign of how the city's rulers looked out for the welfare of their citizens by organizing a system that drained the rainfall and prevented flooding, Reich said.
The discovery "shows you planning on a grand scale, unlike other cities in the ancient Near East," said anthropologist Joe Zias, an expert in the Second Temple period who was not involved in the dig.
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GGG Ping.
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No, but they were planning on using the tunnel to undermine the approach to the West Wall. This flood of publicity has stopped that plan from being put into effect.
The guy seems to have quite an interesting history in regard to his novels.
In his first book he wrote about a hijacked jet, coming in on a kamikaze attack into an American city. He wrote it 9 months before 911.
As the story unfolded a US President was in a war with Saddam Hussein over weapons of mass destruction.
His second novel, The Last Days opened with an attack on a US Diplomatic convoy heading into Gaza, the death of Yasser Arafat and radical Islamic terrorist trying to take over the West Bank and Gaza. Two weeks before it was published a US Diplomatic convoy was attacked in Gaza. Thirteen months after it was published Arafat died and Hamas took command of the West Bank and Gaza.
In his third novel, The Ezekiel Option, a dictator rises to power in Russia, an Iranian leader vows to annihilate Israel. On the day the novel came out Iran elected thenutjob who vowed to wipe Israel off the map, and Putin made a deal to sell Iran $1 billion worth of military weapons.
His last novel The Copper Scrolls, tells of the hunt for the hidden treasures of the Temple Mount. They find all sorts of treasure in the tunnels, including the Arc of the Covenant
I hope this wakes them up to the fact of what ancient overlords did to them. They are getting in the same situation again, only this time with the entire middle east looking to sack them.
Bingo.
The thing about his novels is that I am always having to check what parts of his novels are based on fact. The Copper Scrolls has tons of material about The Dead Sea Scrolls.
BTW, Rosenberg at one time worked for Rush Limbaugh, Natan Sharansky and Bibi Netanyahu.
OK, so where’s the Ark?
Ping
How can you say it’s not speculation?
How do you know this isn’t the tunnel the locals used to use to go to the loo?
The discovery "shows you planning on a grand scale, unlike other cities in the ancient Near East,"
Unlike some cities in Louisiana who will remain nameless.
As you probably already know, Rosenberg is a Christian. His personal story is inspiring.
He seems to be a wonderful man.
The next book should be a doozy. It is somewhat similar to The Left Behind series.
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don’t tell the palis...they will use it to smuggle in suicide bombers!!!
Just about ALL the cities of any size in the ancient Near East/Middle East were planned to the nines ~ and that’s because the folks doing the planning had already figured out how cities had to be planned, but they did it somewhere else ~ probably Ukraine.
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