Archaeologists working in Jerusalem’s City of David Archaeological Park discovered an immense dam that was built to capture water flowing down the Tyropoeon Valley on its way out of the city. Radiocarbon analysis dates the dam’s construction to the late ninth century BCE, sometime during the reigns of Kings Joash and Amaziah of Judah. The water that accumulated behind the dam may have created the large reservoir that some scholars believe was the biblical Pool of Siloam, a key water source within Jerusalem’s fortifications. The ancient dam, the largest ever discovered in Israel, measures about 40 feet high and more […]
