Jerusalem finds new artifacts in 2000-year-old drainage channel

A complete glass vial, grape pips, 2,000-year-old eggshells – and complete ceramic lamps still with soot in them – all these were uncovered in a new excavation in the drainage channel running under Second Temple period Jerusalem's main street. The excavation, managed by the Israel Antiquities Authority with funding from the City of David, reveals Jerusalem's changing urban pulse in the last decades before the Temple's destruction in 70 CE.

In the framework of this excavation, the channel that was Jerusalem's main subterranean artery is being exposed. This channel passed under, amongst other facilities, the colorful markets of Jerusalem at the foot of the Temple Mount, and along the entire length of the City of David.