ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE:
Second Temple period Jewish ritual bath uncovered, in need of rescuing. The 2,000-year-old facility was revealed during a salvage excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority (Rossella Tercatin, Jerusalem Post). They want to move the whole mikveh to another location, if the can find the funding.
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