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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.
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.
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.
Burial caves, hiding tunnels and caves used during the Bar Kokhba revolt in 132-135 CE, a columbarium, and a burial pyramid were discovered at the site. [4] Horvat 'Ethri - remains of a partially restored Jewish village from the Second Temple period and the Bar Kokhba revolt, [5] containing mikvehs, a synagogue, wine presses, and burial caves.
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 (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 .
This list of deepest caves includes the deepest known natural caves according to maximum surveyed depth as of 2024. The depth value is measured from the highest to the lowest accessible cave point. The depth value is measured from the highest to the lowest accessible cave point.
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 .