Jerusalem Drainage Tunnel from 70 CE Discovered

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That's incredible! Did the report touch on whether this system mirrors the designs found in Rome (or any of the other major cites of the Empire)?
In the article I read, not much was yet reported on the actual design of the system. It may be that more excavation work still needs to be done before they get to that point... ---SLC
There is an article about the tunnel discovery on the Oriental Institute website, by Norman Golb, with a list of passages from Josephus. Apparently, not only did the archaeologists blunder in stating that Josephus described refugees hiding in this particular tunnel, but they also did not realize that a number of similar gigantic tunnels were unearthed in Jerusalem during the 19th century (Golb reproduces a bunch of amazing illustrations from a book entitled Underground Jerusalem, published in 1876). The link to Golb's article is:
http://oi.uchicago.edu/pdf/jerusalem_tunnel_sept2007.pdf
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