Siloam Inscription

The Siloam Inscription is an ancient Hebrew text carved inside Hezekiah’s Tunnel in Jerusalem. It describes the moment when two teams of workers, digging from opposite ends of the tunnel, finally met in the middle and water began flowing from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam. The tunnel is usually connected to King Hezekiah of Judah, who prepared Jerusalem’s water supply before the Assyrian invasion of Sennacherib. This inscription is important because it is one of the clearest examples of ancient Hebrew writing from the First Temple period and gives physical evidence of major engineering work in biblical Jerusalem.