Temple Road Ascent and Central Water Channel

I spent some time today at the City of David, just south of the Old City of Jerusalem. After walking through Hezekiah's tunnel and getting wet up to my thighs, I then discovered a new drainage conduit that was only recently opened to the public in 2011.  Archaeologists Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron completed the exposure of this channel which runs over 650 meters from inside the city walls near Robinson's Arch all the way past the Pool of Siloah (Siloam). Probably built by Herod just prior to the time of Jesus, this conduit ran under the street. Some parts of the channel on the northern end are roofed with a stone vault and on the southern end it was built from the ground up, its walls made of dressed stones.  The southern part of the channel was probably built a little later. Pottery, coins, stone vessels, and decorated stones were found as this excavation took place. The coins marked the second and third year of the revolt of the Jews against the Romans. Scholars believe that the last surviving Jewish rebels hid out there because Josephus say that the Romans ferreted out the last remaining rebels from the sewers and killed them.