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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 04:58 24/01/2007 Pilgrims' road to Temple unearthed in City of David dig By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent At the end of the 19th century, the archaeologists Bliss and Dickey discovered a short piece of road dating back to the Herodian period in Jerusalem's City of David. The road ascended from south to north in the direction of the Temple Mount. Many years later, in 1963, the archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon found another piece of the road, a little closer to the Temple Mount. When, a little over a year ago, Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologists found yet another section of it, they believed they had solved a puzzle, and that they could now sketch the course of the main road by which many pilgrims of Second Temple times made their way up to the Temple after immersing themselves in the Siloam Spring. It turned out they were wrong. That road was apparently secondary. The road that IAA archaeologists Ronny Reich and Eli Shukron have now found, which is much grander, wider and more central, is parallel to the one Bliss and Dickey discovered. Reich believes that at a certain point further to the north, these two roads converged. The City of David excavations are funded by the Elad Association, which buys houses in the City of David area and populates them with Jews. The dig also enjoys government backing, and funding from the Tourism Ministry; the Israel Nature and Parks Protection Authority and the Jerusalem Municipality are involved as well. About 20 laborers, mostly Arab residents of Silwan (the Arab neighborhood where the City of David is located) are employed by the IAA in the dig. Advertisement Not far from there, at a lower point, the IAA has continued to unearth the Pool of Siloam, which is much bigger than previously thought. But this dig has been halted for the time being, until talks are resumed with one of the churches, which owns the area believed to cover the rest of the pool. Bookmark to del.icio.us Organic memory Israeli research is among '50 most significant scientific breakthroughs in 2007.' Floating the PA International donors pledged $7.4 billion to help boost the PA economy .   1.   ROAD WARRIORS 05:36  |  Brant 24/01/07   2.   Stop these excavations -- they`re a provocation 07:42  |  idf_sergeant 24/01/07   3.   Re: 1 - please stop using this ridiculous argument 09:19  |  Michael 24/01/07   4.   idf_sergeant , I am afraid you are wrong on several counts, the 09:46  |  Nadav 24/01/07   5.   WAKF`s claims 10:08  |  David Pacifici 24/01/07   6.   # 2 idf_sergeant / IL 10:17  |  Joseph E . 24/01/07   7.   Moslem squattors on our Temple Mount 10:55  |  Yacov 24/01/07   8.   moslem claims 08:04  |  j covert 27/01/07   9.   squatters 08:07  |  j covert 27/01/07   10.   muslims on temple mount 08:14  |  j covert 27/01/07   11.   City of David dig 00:37  |  Michael Gahris 29/01/07   12.   # 11 re: city of David dig 15:57  |  Petra 19/12/07   13.   p.s. re: city of david 15:58  |  Petra 19/12/07   14.   Let`s hope the dome collapes! 16:09  |  Petra 19/12/07

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