---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:25:52 +0200 (IST) From: Eliot BRAUN - 892213 <eliot@aleph> To: James Duncan <[log in to unmask]> Cc: Multiple recipients of list HISTARCH <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Jerusalem tunnel sans politics Truthfully, I think neither. The real cause is much deeper. The tunnel, as I understand it (based on what are provable facts) is a symptom. Let us all hope for peace. Eliot Braun, Jerusalem On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, James Duncan wrote: > Is it the existence or the use that is the cause of the problem? > James Duncan > > On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Eliot BRAUN - 892213 wrote: > > > In discussing my last posting with Prof. Amos Kloner of the Israel > > Antiquities Authority he reminded me that the same tunnel was discovered > > way back in the last century and described and published in some detail > > in THE SURVEY OF WESTERN PALESTINE 1884 in the volume on Jerusaelm pp. > > 211 ff. The tunnel is an ancient rock-cut passageway which was full of > > water in 1885 on which Sir Charles Warren rafted when he discovered it. > > Eliot Braun > > >