King David’s palace sought by Edmond student archaeologists

 
BY DAVID ZIZZO
Published: March 22, 2009

About 150 feet long, the musty tunnel is so narrow they had to crawl at some points to get through. But the ancient passage 20 feet below the city of Jerusalem was where Brent Nagtegaal and other students from a college in Edmond wanted to be.

"It was quite amazing ... the chance of finding something amazing inside a tunnel that no one has been in for two and a half thousand years,” Nagtegaal said.


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