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 ...

Some scholars had accepted the biblical account, whereas others had argued that inscriptions at the Siloam Tunnel’s outlet indicated an excavation date between 200 B.C. and 100 B.C.

The tunnel runs 1,749 feet southwest from Gihon Spring to the Siloam Pool beneath the ancient section of Jerusalem known as the City of David. Although it is knee-deep in water even today, it is ...

In 1880, the Siloam Inscription was uncovered in the water tunnel, just a few dozen meters from the pool. Currently located at the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the inscription in ancient Hebrew script ...

A copy of the Siloam Inscription on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on January 15, 2013. The original is at the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul. A 2,700-year-old Hebrew inscription on ...

An inscription inside the tunnel, discovered in the 1880s and now in a museum in Istanbul, Turkey, describes the effort, telling how the teams could hear each other hammering when they got to ...

The tunnel's age had been debated by biblical scholars, a few of whom had suggested it was built centuries later. The only surviving clue to its age had been an inscription discovered in 1880 on a ...