July 8, 2008

An Aqueduct

Today we went on a ‘tee-ouwel’ (excursion in Hebrew) to the old Aqueducts that brought water from Mt. Hebron to the temple.  The aqueduct was cut right through the rock and was at a very small decline until it reached the temple.  The engineering is pretty amazing and the aqueducts were used for a long [...]