Hebrew University archaeologists Michal Haber, left, and Dr. Oren Gutfeld pack up a vessel and other items they discovered at the site of a mikvah, near the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem.

A project to build a handicap access elevator from the Jewish Quarter to the Western Wall near the Temple Mount unearthed the mikvah, which dates to the 1st century CE.

 

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