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TIL that a 12th century well in Jerusalem had a secret staircase underneath it

I was reading this article from the Israel Antiquities Service last week and it blew my mind. They found a well that people used for hundreds of years, but when they dug deeper they found a hidden staircase leading to a huge underground water chamber. Apparently it was built by the Crusaders or maybe even earlier, and the well was just the entrance. The really wild part is that locals had no idea it was there even though they drew water from that spot every day for generations. I guess it shows how much stuff is still hiding right under our feet in old cities. Has anyone else run into a discovery where people were using something for years and had no clue what was underneath?

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emery3561d ago

Did they find anything cool down there or just the chamber?

abbychen1d ago

Woah slow down lol, the chamber IS the cool thing they found. Its like the whole point of the dig, they haven't really found anything inside it yet other than the empty space.