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In 1880, children playing in the area discovered a flat stone with an inscription in ancient Hebrew.
This inscription was done at the order of Hezekiah, marking the completion of the water tunnel:
[The completion of] the piercing through. And this is the story fo the piercing through. While
[the stone-cutters were swinging their]axes, each toward fellow and while thre were yet three
cubits to be pierced through, [there was heard] the voice of a man calling to his fellow, for there
was a crevice on the right...And on the day fo the piercing through the stone cutters struck through,
each to meet his fellow, axe against axe. Then ran the water from the spring to the pool for twelve
hundred cubits, and one hundred cubits was the height of the rock above the heads of the stone cutters."
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