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Il '''canale Warren''' è un sito archeologico di [[Gerusalemme]] scoperto da [[Charles Warren]] alla fine del XIX secolo. Esso si dipana dalla città vecchia e raggiunge i pressi dell'[[oasi di Gihon]]. Dopo la sua scoperta si pensò che si trattasse dell'antico acquedotto della città, poichè esso poteva essere in grado di fornire acqua fresca (che era altrimenti difficile reperire) anche in tempi difficili come un assedio. Lo stretto ed alto passaggio si rivelò percorribile quando un membro dell'equipe di Warren si calò dall'alto al suo fondo.
Poichè nel [[Libro di Samuele]] si dice che [[Davide]] conquistò Gerusalemme dai suoi precedenti abitanti grazie alla scoperta da parte di [[Joab]] di un canale simile,
Il canale è composto da quattro sezioni in sequenza:
*a feeding tunnel ▼
According to a number of archaeologists, the shaft is simply a widening of a natural [[fissure]] in the rock. The 14 metre high shaft, which has a pool of water at the base, is now not actually thought to have been part of the system. In 1998, while a [[visitor centre]] was being constructed, builders discovered that there was an additional passageway, about 2 metres higher and starting from the horizontal curved tunnel, that skirted the 14 metre vertical shaft, and continued to a pool much nearer the Gihon spring. The 14 metre shaft is too narrow, and the pool at its base too shallow, to have been functional, and archaeologists now believe that it is merely a natural fissure that the original excavators happened to breach during their dig towards the other pool. The higher passageway was not originally higher - at some point Warren's shaft was lowered (cutting into a geologically distinct type of rock), and ran into the 14 meter vertical shaft.▼
*un tunnel orizzontale
*un canale verticale alto 14 metri
*un tunnel di sbocco
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The pool reached by the higher passage was protected by a large tower, which was also discovered by the visitor centre builders, and is located outside the former city. The pool connects to the Gihon spring via a narrow channel, and the Gihon was itself protected by a large tower (also recently discovered). The pool itself may have been protected by a second tower, but this is uncertain as excavation of the southern side of the pool has not yet been carried out, since it lies under a current residential area.
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