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The Western Wall Tunnel (Hebrew: מנהרת הכותל‎, translit.:
Minheret Hakotel) is an underground tunnel exposing the full
length of the Western Wall. The tunnel is adjacent to the
Western Wall and is located under buildings of the Old City of
Jerusalem. While the open-air portion of the Western Wall is
approximately 60 metres (200 ft) long, the majority of its
original length is hidden underground. The tunnel allows access
to an additional 485 metres (1,591 ft) of the wall.   In 19 BCE,
King Herod undertook a project to double the area of the Temple
Mount in Jerusalem by incorporating part of the hill on the
Northwest. In order to do so, four retaining walls were
constructed, and the Temple Mount was expanded on top of them.
These retaining walls remained standing, along with the platform
itself, after the Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE.
Since then much of the area next to t