CANAANITE TUNNEL

The Canaanite Tunnel is a name given to a tunnel running from the Gihon spring to the southern end of Biblical Jerusalem, ending at the Pool of Siloam. Unlike its parallel Hezekiah’s tunnel, this tunnel has several outlets along its coarse, suggesting it irrigated agricultural plots in the Kidron valley. Being in a higher elevation then Hezekiah’s tunnel it is assumed that it preceded it. Most scholars argue that it is from Canaanite times, parallel to the Middle Bronze Age.