Discovery Made In The Old City.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19236, 25 November 1930, Page 1

Discovery Made In The Old City.

Pool Of Burak Also Disclosed By Workmen (United Tress Assn.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received November 25, 8.30 a.m.) JERUSALEM, November 24. A great arch connected with Biblical times and supposed to be “ The Causeway of the Going Up,” which is mentioned in First Chronicles, 26:16, has been discovered during repairs to a drainage canal in the Old City under the Synagogue and close to the Wailing Wall. The arch belongs to a series, which, in Jewish times, supported the street leading from the temple area to the Upper City. Sixteen yards below the floor level of the Synagogue excavators also found a pool which is believed to be the Pool of Burak, so named after the legendary Steed of the Prophet Mahomet, who is supposed to have tethered the animal to the spot before his miraculous tourney to Heaven. Jerusalem is mentioned as early as 1400 8.0. in the Egyptian records, but the remains of ancient Jerusalem are. very scanty, consisting mainly of portions of old walls, cisterns, pools, conduits and burial-places. Near what was the southern end of the old City of David is the pool of Silvam. A tunnel 1700 feet in length was excavated in the time of the Kings of Judah to supply this pool, but was not dis—•verccl till 1915. In A.D. .70 the city j