The living room in Ein Kerem - and staircase hewn out of bedrock, leading to a Second-Temple era ritual bath. Photo by Assaf Peretz, courtesy of the IAA
I’m guessing whoever built the house in the first place discovered it 20 to 50 years ago. But, as any wise developer would do, kept quiet and built over it.
“So what should we do Harvey?”
“Don’t do nothing Shem - those guys from the museum will be all over this - we’ll never sell ANY of these homes!”
Cool?
66-70 CE?? Christian Era?
So they can put that on MLS as having another full bath?
I guess that beats finding Richard II under a parking lot