days 2 &3, in one blog
Backing up a few days...
We spent our second day in lecture as the morning passed and walking around the old city in the afternoon. There is again so much that we saw, but the most impressive was Hezekiah's tunnel. Built about 3 millenia ago, this tunnel was constructed to divert water from a spring outside the city walls into the city in case of attack. The tunnel is about 1600 meters long, 18-30 inches wide and between 4 and 6 feet tall. It is truely an engineering marvel. To add to that, they started digging the tunnel from both ends and met in the middle. No one is really clear on how they accomplished this- wow! When the tunnel was found there was only about one foot of depth and the guys crawled all the way on their back. Today the depth of water is about up to your knee.
The mosque on from the southern side of the Temple Mount.
One of the oldest bathrooms you will ever see. This is in the City of David, today located south of the Old City, with building dating from about 3000 years ago. The city itself was about 10 acres, housing maybe 100 families. These were likely only the more prominent Israelites fo the time, with the majority living out in the fields. This house probably was that of a scribe, priest or other administrative city official. On the bottom right, you can see a stone with a hole, thus a bathroom.
Me in Hezekiah's tunnel
The tunnel in front of me...
This is where the tunnel lets out, excavated back to the pool of Jesus day. This is known as the pool of Siloam, where the blind man washed his eyes.
And this is a picture of the dome of the church commemorating Jesus' activity at Bethany, specifically the resurection of Lazarus and his interactions with Mary and Martha.
Thats all for now, the next update will likely have some more cultural info. Thanks for reading Ma.
We spent our second day in lecture as the morning passed and walking around the old city in the afternoon. There is again so much that we saw, but the most impressive was Hezekiah's tunnel. Built about 3 millenia ago, this tunnel was constructed to divert water from a spring outside the city walls into the city in case of attack. The tunnel is about 1600 meters long, 18-30 inches wide and between 4 and 6 feet tall. It is truely an engineering marvel. To add to that, they started digging the tunnel from both ends and met in the middle. No one is really clear on how they accomplished this- wow! When the tunnel was found there was only about one foot of depth and the guys crawled all the way on their back. Today the depth of water is about up to your knee.
The mosque on from the southern side of the Temple Mount.
One of the oldest bathrooms you will ever see. This is in the City of David, today located south of the Old City, with building dating from about 3000 years ago. The city itself was about 10 acres, housing maybe 100 families. These were likely only the more prominent Israelites fo the time, with the majority living out in the fields. This house probably was that of a scribe, priest or other administrative city official. On the bottom right, you can see a stone with a hole, thus a bathroom.
Me in Hezekiah's tunnel
The tunnel in front of me...
This is where the tunnel lets out, excavated back to the pool of Jesus day. This is known as the pool of Siloam, where the blind man washed his eyes.And this is a picture of the dome of the church commemorating Jesus' activity at Bethany, specifically the resurection of Lazarus and his interactions with Mary and Martha.
Thats all for now, the next update will likely have some more cultural info. Thanks for reading Ma.
posted by Kevin Kuoni | 10:50 PM
1 Comments:
Kevin, these pictures are so good.
The tunnel looks scary, how far did you go? I can see that you are keeping hydrated with your camel back, that must be one of your best friends right now. You haven't mentioned how hot it is.
We are almost finished packing, will check in one more time before we leave in the morning. Will be closer to you geographically, but my heart is always near no matter what. Love, the now famous "Ma"
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