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Archaeologists unearth 2,000-year-old aqueduct near Jerusalem

The aqueduct near Jerusalem is about two thousand years old and has been linked to a biblical story; the pipe isn't saying who drank from it.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIt's eight-thirty Eastern, this is Coffee Talk, and I'm already on my second oat latte, so nobody judge. Archaeologists have unearthed a two-thousand-year-old aqueduct near Jerusalem.

  2. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorAnd one outlet's headline asks, with Jesus in quotation marks, whether he drank water here. I have covered digs.

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe pipe does not say who drank from it.

  4. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistI'll be honest, I love any story about water getting where it's going. That's more than I can say for Sunday's forecast.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBut it's a lovely thought. Two thousand years later, we're all still just thirsty people near a pipe.

  6. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe editor's note says only that it's linked to a biblical story. Linked is carrying a great deal of that headline.

  7. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistLinked how?

  8. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe story doesn't say. Which is why there's a question mark.

  9. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd click it. I clicked on a headline about a pigeon in a tuxedo this morning, and I'd do it again.

  10. Brock Thunderson · Chief MeteorologistSo by that rule, the Brita filter on my counter has hosted royalty.

  11. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorPut quotation marks around the evidence and you can run it.

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  1. 2,000-year-old aqueduct found near Jerusalem, scholar sees Jesus link · Fox News
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