If you were trying to escape the Roman blitz of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., you weren’t left with many options. One option was to follow Simon, son of Giora. “This Simon,” writes the contemporaneous historian Josephus, “took the most faithful of his friends with him… and let himself and his party into one of the secret passages.” Josephus refers to these secret passages—an elaborate system of underground tunnels—repeatedly in his account of the Roman siege of Jerusalem. A recent archaeological find supports Josephus’s reports. A research team led by Ronny Reich, of the University of Haifa, and Eli Shukron, […]
