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...go to the museum in Israel and you'll find three pots and stick....dig anywhere in Iraq and you'll find treasure, especially tablets, so abundant and magnificent that it boggles the mind...everytime they discover some scrubby thing in Israel they pump it up and holler about it and get experts pouring over it and build it its own museum, hoping we'll see just how "civilized" themn old coots were...when along, if you read between the lines, there wasn't anything there to yawn over.

...now they've discovered a "water system" in Israel they're all hot about....turns out it was nothing more "wonderful" than a drainpipe leading to a cistern from which lines fed some plants...and at that the article admits the "glory days" of this fantastic bit of humbug came during the Persian rule...what the hell ELSE would you do with rain water but try to trap it and use it...big fucking deal...but, as usual and JUST like their Christian sect, we're supposed to get all hot and bothered by this discovery...and you can compare this amazing rain gutter to all the unrivaled things the Assyrians invented...and their grand pipe stands in relation to all the Assyrians had as their Christian sect stands to Ashur.

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Ancient biblical waterworks found in Israel By Corinne Heller
Wed Aug 23, 3:21 AM ET

RAMAT RACHEL, Israel (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed an ancient water system which was modified by the conquering Persians to turn the desert into a paradise.

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The network of reservoirs, drain pipes and underground tunnels served one of the grandest palaces in the biblical kingdom of Judea.

Archaeologists first discovered the palace in 1954, a structure built on a six-acre (2.4 hectare) site where the communal Ramat Rachel farm now stands.

Recent excavations unearthed nearly 70 square meters (750 square feet) of a unique water system.

"They had found a huge palace ... even nicer than the palaces in Jerusalem, (dating) from the late Iron Age to the end of the biblical period in the 7th century," Oded Lipschits, a Tel Aviv University archaeologist, said.

The infrastructure of the palace was remodeled throughout the centuries to fit the needs of the Babylonians, Persians, Romans and Hasmoneans who ruled the Holy Land, said Lipschits, who heads the dig with an academic from Germany's University of Heidelberg.

But it was the Persians, who took control of the region around 539 BC from the Babylonians, who renovated the water system and turned it into a thing of beauty.

Lipschits said they added small waterfalls to try to turn a desert into a paradise.

"Imagine on this land plants and water rushing and streaming here," Lipschits said. "This was important to someone who finds aesthetics important, for someone who wanted to feel as though they are not just in some remote corner in the desert."

Yuval Gadot, a biblical archaeology expert from Tel Aviv University who is taking part in the excavation, said it was unclear exactly how the water system worked.

"Probably rainwater came down on the roof of the houses (in the palace complex)," he said. "From there, it was collected by drains into pools or to the underground reservoir and taken to nearby fields for crops or nice gardens."

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