Posted on 09/01/2011 6:27:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Cavers crawl along with the complex illuminated by the eerie light from a head torch. The system was once reached through trap doors in Jewish villages,some of which are now archaeological sites, others have been completely destroyed. Today, they may be no more than an indistinct, shoulder-width opening in the ground or hillside.
The intrepid may have to crawl, even slither for a few minutes through a pitch-black burrow too cramped for a fully armed Roman legionary. Turns can be so tight cavers may have to back up to a spot where they can flip from head to feet first in order to continue.
Along the way are niches which once held oil lamps, and carvings in the rock. There are expansive columbariums, with hundreds of holes in the wall once used to raise pigeons and decorated store rooms.
Journey down into the dark: The tunnels were dug by Jewish rebels fighting the Roman empire and were once reached through trap doors in villages scattered around the hills.
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I’ve got those from Gutenberg or something, in HTML, that would be another good book to post. I still haven’t finished posted Huck Finn. :’)
The Masada mass-suicide was actually mostly homicide of a sort — the “winner” of each group of lots had to kill the others, then they’d group up again, and at the end there was only one, who then killed himself.
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