Ancient biblical waterworks found in Israel


	Ancient biblical waterworks found in Israel

invictus

8-23-2006 7:18 AM

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archaeology, ancient judaea, waterworks, irrigation, israel

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8-24-2006 1:45 AM

rmowery

Wonder if they spout out Holy Water.

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				Ancient biblical waterworks found in Israel				</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/mideast_water_dc_2&printer=1"><P>Archaeologists in Israel
have unearthed an ancient water system which was modified by
the conquering Persians to turn the desert into a paradise.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/mideast_water_dc_2&printer=1"><P>The network of reservoirs, drain pipes and underground
tunnels served one of the grandest palaces in the biblical
kingdom of Judea.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/mideast_water_dc_2&printer=1"><P>"They had found a huge palace ... even nicer than the
palaces in Jerusalem, (dating) from the late Iron Age to the
end of the biblical period in the 7th century," Oded Lipschits,
a Tel Aviv University archaeologist, said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/mideast_water_dc_2&printer=1"><P>But it was the Persians, who took control of the region
around 539 BC from the Babylonians, who renovated the water
system and turned it into a thing of beauty.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/mideast_water_dc_2&printer=1"><P>Lipschits said they added small waterfalls to try to turn a
desert into a paradise.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/mideast_water_dc_2&printer=1"><P>Yuval Gadot, a biblical archaeology expert from Tel Aviv
University who is taking part in the excavation, said it was
unclear exactly how the water system worked.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CB3950F0-FBAD-4854-813F-7A47BD2AF22B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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