Endnote 7 – Everything You Ever Knew About Jerusalem Is Wrong (Well, Almost)

Although the Siloam Channel carried water to the southern part of the city (and the royal gardens), the water could also be siphoned off by a separate short tunnel (called Tunnel III in Louis-Hugues Vincent’s numbering) that connected the Siloam Channel to the pool adjacent to the Gihon Spring. That pool was protected by the so-called Pool Tower that Reich and Shukron have discovered and, presumably, by another similar tower on the other side of the pool. Incidentally, Vincent designated Hezekiah’s Tunnel as Channel I and the Siloam Channel as II.