The Gihon Spring, Hezekiah's Tunnel, and the Pool of Siloam

Excavations found a tower system built over the Gihon spring, from which water could be raised up to those in the city. The next two photos show those ruins. The photos are taken about midway up the tower, the top one looking up, the lower one looking down toward where a water pool once was. It is believed that the tower was orginally built even prior to the time of the Judges, by the Cannanite people living in the land (circa 1800's BC). [Archaeology] [Images of selected sites in Jerusalem from Furman Univ.]