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The Ploutonion was described by several ancient writers including Strabo, [7] Cassius Dio and Damascius [citation needed]. It is a small cave, just large enough for one person to enter through a fenced entrance, beyond which stairs go down, and from which emerges suffocating carbon dioxide gas caused by underground geologic activity. Behind the ...
Inside Barn Cave, one of the biggest man-made caves in Iceland. The Caves of Hella (Icelandic pronunciation:; also known as the Caves of Ægissíða [ˈaijɪsˌsiːða]) are a series of ancient man-made sandstone caves located at the farm Ægissíða on the bank of the river Ytri-Rangá, just across from the village Hella, in the southern part of Iceland.
Kents Cavern is a cave system in Torquay, Devon, England.It is notable both for its archaeological and geological features (as a karst feature in the Devonian limestone). The cave system is open to the public and has been a geological Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1952 and a Scheduled Ancient Monument since 1957.
The caves are in the valley of the river Escalona and were used by prehistoric people who left rock art. They are known for painted images of a bow and arrow goat hunt and for a scene depicting a human figure foraging honey , the earliest known depiction of bees and the oldest evidence of honey consumption by Homo sapiens .
Windmill Hill Cavern (also called Windmill Hill Cave, the Brixham Cave, Brixham Bone Cavern and Philp's Cave [2]) is a limestone cave system in the town of Brixham, Devon. It was discovered in 1858 and later excavated by a team led by the geologist William Pengelly , who found proof that humans co-existed with extinct British fauna.
There's evidence the cave was first settled during the stone age more than 10,000 years ago. Later, residents farmed in nearby fields and fished in the sea only hundreds of yards away.
Grotte du Bichon is a karstic cave in the Swiss Jura, overlooking the river Doubs at an altitude of 846 m, some 5 km north of La Chaux-de-Fonds. It is the site of the discovery of the skeleton of a hunter-gatherer of the Azilian (late Upper Paleolithic to early Mesolithic ), dubbed "Bichon man" ( homme de Bichon ), a young male about 20 to 23 ...
The site features ancient caverns, cisterns carved into the rock, and a Muslim shrine known as Wely Sheikh Madkour. Kh. 'Id el Minya, also known as 'Eid al-Miah (Palestine grid: 1504/1181), is the site recognised as Adullam proper, [10] being now a tell at the southern end of Wadi es-Sûr, an extension of the Elah valley.