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Caves were used for refuge throughout history in the region. Up the southern slope of the Masada cliff, the almost inaccessible Yoram Cave, whose only opening is located some 4 metres (13 ft) above an exposed access path and 100 metres (330 ft) below the plateau, has been found to contain 6,000-year-old barley seeds.
An almost inaccessible cave, dubbed Yoram Cave, located on the sheer southern cliff face 100 m below the plateau, has been found to contain numerous plant remains, of which 6,000-year-old barley seeds were in such good state of preservation that their genome could be sequenced.
Manot Cave: Maresha [60] Part of the 'Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Judean Lowlands as a Microcosm of the Land of the Caves' World Heritage Site [37] Mary's Well: Masada: World Heritage Site [103] Mazor Mausoleum: Tel Megiddo: Tell al-Mutesellim [104] Part of the 'Biblical Tels – Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba' World Heritage Site [34 ...
In 1960 he initiated scholarly archeological exploration of caves south of Ein Gedi, an enterprise approved by Ben-Gurion in which Israel Defense Forces rendered considerable support. He wrote about the expedition and its findings in his 1971 book Bar-Kokhba: The Rediscovery of the Legendary Hero of the Second Jewish Revolt against Rome .
The other cave had been looted at some point, and analysis revealed that the interred individuals belonged to a group of different origin than the first group. [2] Ancient Hebrew inscriptions, known as the Khirbet Beit Lei graffiti, were found in the caves. From 1979 to 1983, Yigal Tepper and Y. Shahar [clarification needed] the caves at the ...
Yoram Tsafrir (Hebrew: יורם צפריר; 30 January 1938 – 23 November 2015) was an Israeli archaeologist. His research has included the Byzantine influence on ancient synagogues, demography of Palestine in the Byzantine period, mosaics at Horvat Berachot , excavations at Beit She'an , and excavations at Rehovot-in-the-Negev ). [ 1 ]
Mevaseret Zion (Hebrew: מבשרת ציון, lit. 'Herald of Zion') native_name in Arabic Qastal القسطل Al-Qastal is a depopulated Palestinian village located 10 km west of Jerusalem.
Yoram (יֹרָם or יורם ? ) is a given name derived from Jehoram ( יְהוֹרָם ), meaning " Jehovah is exalted" in Biblical Hebrew , which was the name of several individuals in the Tanakh ; the female version of this name is Athaliah .