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The Cave of the Seven Sleepers (Arabic: كهف الرقيم, Kahf ar-Raqīm) is an archaeological and religious site in ar-Rajib, a village to the east of Amman, Jordan. [1] It is claimed that this cave housed the Seven Sleepers, also known from Christian sources as the "Sleepers of Ephesus" and from the Qur’an as the "Companions of the Cave ...
The Jordan Lead Codices (or the Jordanian Codices) are a collection of codices allegedly found in a cave in Jordan and first publicized in March 2011. A number of scholars and a November 2012 regional BBC News investigation have pronounced them fakes.
Companions of the Cave), [3] is a late antique Christian legend, and a Qur’anic Islamic story. The Christian legend speaks about a group of youths who hid inside a cave [ 4 ] outside the city of Ephesus (modern-day Selçuk , Turkey ) around AD 250 to escape Roman persecutions of Christians and emerged many years later.
Petra is a symbol of Jordan, as well as Jordan's most-visited tourist attraction. ... were forcibly resettled from their cave dwellings in Petra to Umm Sayhoun/Um ...
A rock formation nearby venerated as Lot's wife as a pillar of salt. The Monastery of St Lot is a Byzantine-period monastic site near the Dead Sea in Jordan, at the entrance to a natural cave, which Christians believed to have been the one where Lot and his daughters sought shelter after Sodom was destroyed (Genesis 19:24–25). [1]
Wadi Rum (Arabic: وادي رم Wādī Ramm, also Wādī al-Ramm), known also as the Valley of the Moon (Arabic: وادي القمر Wādī al-Qamar), is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia and about 60 km (37 mi) to the east of the city of Aqaba.
The next burial in the cave is that of Abraham himself, who at the age of 175 years was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael. [26] The title deed to the cave was part of the property of Abraham that passed to his son Isaac. [27] [28] The third burial was that of Isaac, by his two sons Esau and Jacob, who died when he was 180 years old. [29]
Ayn al-Habis (Arabic: عين الحبيس), [1] also known by its medieval names Cave de Sueth (Old French, French: Cave de Suète), [2] Cava de Suet (Medieval Latin), or Habis Jaldak (Classical Arabic), is a 12th century cave castle built into the southern cliffs of the Yarmouk River gorge in modern-day Jordan. [3]