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Using Carbon-14 dating techniques, Israeli and British scientists have determined that Siloam's Tunnel, a long, circuitous underground passage constructed below Jerusalem's ancient City of David probably was built about 700 BC, when King Hezekiah ruled the land of Judea... |
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| Carbon-14 Dating confirms Biblical link to Hezekiah's Tunnel (November 2003) |
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The radiometric dating corroborates biblical texts such as 2 Kings 20:20 and 2 Chronicles 32:3-4 as well as an ancient inscription, discovered in 1880, on one of the tunnel's walls. Although this inscription appears to refer to Hezekiah, it does not do so by name. This marks the first time a structure mentioned in the Bible has been dated radiometrically, according to researchers Amos Frumkin, Aryeh Shimron and Jeff Rosenbaum, who published their findings in the journal Nature. While most scholars have long credited the 1,750-foot-long tunnel to Hezekiah--and in fact call it Hezekiah's Tunnel--based on the two biblical references, a minority insisted the passage was built centuries later... |
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