Ancient Hall Opened in Jerusalem

The fact that there is a hall of ages within the haphazard maze of tunnels and aqueducts beneath Jerusalem’s old city is not a great discovery. Archeologists knew this hall existed for more than 30 years. They Just could not enter the hall because ancient building techniques and materials left the place unstable. The walls were buckling in and part of the ceiling had collapsed. Since thousands of years with no particular strategy in city planning left rooms, hallways and chambers stacked on each other, a collapse of this room could have meant a substantial cave in...

... It was that simple and centuries of history were re-opened for discovery. So much was discovered in this one room that site engineer Ofer Cohen said, “We changed a few of the Archeological books written in recent years.” They could tell by the changing construction techniques that the room had been used and altered by nearly every group of people who stopped in or occupied Jerusalem. Early Jews, the Romans, Persians, Crusaders and Islamists. And apparently ancient people were very sloppy. It seems with every dig, researchers find chards of pottery and old coins which also show the researchers all the different people from all the different ages who entered that hall, hence the name it’s been given: the Hall of Ages.