Complex sentence: The Siloam inscription was surreptitiously cut from the wall of the tunnel in 1891 and broken into fragments; these were, however, recovered by the efforts of the British Consul at Jerusalem, and have been placed in the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul.
Split into simpler sentences: The Siloam inscription was surreptitiously cut from the wall of the tunnel in 1891 and broken into fragments. These were, however, recovered by the efforts of the British Consul at Jerusalem, and have been placed in the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul.