Archaeologists Uncover 2000-Year-Old Pilgrims' Road

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JANUARY 28: Palestinian workers take a break from cleaning the Siloam spring, used by Jewish pilgrims during the Second Temple period, on January 28, 2007 below the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. Archaeologists working for an Israeli settlers association which has been active in buying Palestinian houses in Silwan village, which surrounds the biblical spring, and then populates them with Jews, announced last week they had found what they believe is the main pilgrims way from the spring to the 2nd Jewish Temple, which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Two thousand years ago, Jews living in ancient Jerusalem would purify themselves in the Siloam spring before making their way to prayers on the Temple Mount. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)