The structures are the first of their kind ever discovered in Israel, the country's antiquities authority said in an announcement.
"We looked at the installation and realized that we had stumbled on something unique, but since we had never seen a structure like this in Israel, we didn't know how to interpret it," Yiftah Shalev, a senior researcher at the IAA, said in a statement."Even its date was unclear."
Despite some differences in the way the two channels were hewn and designed, it is clear that both are quite similar, the IAA said. "We assume that the two installations, which, as mentioned, may have been used in unison, were constructed several decades earlier," Gadot said. While the purpose of the structures is not yet clear, it is possible—at least in the case of the northern installation—that they were used to soak some type of product, not to drain liquids, Shalev said.
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