The Jerusalem Water Channel is a central drainage channel of Second Temple Jerusalem, now an archaeological site in Jerusalem. It is a large drainage tunnel or sewer that runs down the Tyropoeon Valley and once drained runoff and waste water from the city of Jerusalem.[1][2] The excavators, Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron, date it to the later part of the Second Temple period.[1] According to Leen Ritmeyer, the drain is mainly of Hasmonean age, with the exception of a bypass section near the southeast corner of the Temple Mount, which is Herodian.[3]
- ^ a b Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron, The Second Temple Period Central Drainage Channel in Jerusalem – upon the Completion of the Unearthing of Its Southern Part in 2011, in City of David Studies of Ancient Jerusalem: The 12th Annual Conference, ed. Eyal Meiron (Jerusalem: Megalim, City of David Institute for Jerusalem Studies, 2011), 68–95]
- ^ "Ancient tunnel discovered in Jerusalem". The Jerusalem Post. AP. September 9, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
- ^ Leen Ritmeyer, Tunnel-vision politics in Jerusalem (cont.), 5 February 2011. Accessed 6 December, 2015