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NICOLE OT TAVI / ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY

MAGNIFICENT MILLO. For millennia, people have found innovative ways to access the Gihon Spring, Jerusalem’s main water source. During the Middle Bronze Age, the system consisted of tunnels and fortifications leading from the walled city to a pool and the spring, protected by a tower. The system underwent renovations in the ninth century BCE and more renovations and extensions in the eighth century. The above photo shows the Spring Tower, originally built by Jerusalem’s Canaanite inhabitants in the Middle Bronze Age and renovated by the Israelites in the late ninth century.