JERUSALEM.- A 1,800 year old bathing pool that was probably part of a bathhouse used by the Tenth Legion – the Roman soldiers who destroyed the Temple – was exposed in excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority. The discovery sheds light on the scope of Aelia Capitolina, the city that was founded on the Second Temple period ruins of Jerusalem and that defined the character of ancient Jerusalem as we know it today. A Roman bathing pool – part of a bathhouse from the second-third centuries CE – was uncovered in archaeological excavations the Israel Antiquities Authority is conducting at the initiative of the Jerusalem Municipality and the Moriah Company for the Development of Jerusalem, prior to the construction of a men’s miqve in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem. According to Dr. Ofer Sion, excavation director on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, “We were