Huge Roman-era cave found by Jericho

The Jerosalem Post ^ | June 21, 2009 | Jonah Mandel

[EveningStar]

An artificial underground cave, the largest of its kind in Israel, was discovered in the Jordan Valley during excavations by the Haifa University's Department of Archaeology.

[EveningStar]

Huge Roman-era cave found by Jericho

Nice goin, dude.

[vladimir998]

Y2J! Walls of Jericho!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Wow, that’s a manly man. Just the kind I like :-)

[Publius6961]

Roughly an acre underground.
Definitely impressive.

[eleni121]

dated 1 CE (i hate that term - it is AD) with crosses all over the place.

interesting...

[omega4179]

Did he find hypocrites and parasites in the cave?

[Fractal Trader]

ggg ping

[decimon]

Maybe it’s the lighting but the rock looks to be of quartz.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

It might be connected to the Second Jewish Revolt and constructed/used as a hideout for Jewish guerrillas fighting the legions of Titus and Vespasian. The fact that their is a legionary symbol their might suggest it was cleared out and one of the roman soldiers celebrated by carving his beloved legion’s name in the wall....

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Israeli Jews are probably the last people who are likely to want to make any acknowledgement of Christ being the Messiah by using the term ‘Anno Domini’ for fairly obvious reasons.....

[Daniel II]

Just look at it like I do.

BCE - Before the Christian Era
CE - Christian Era

[eleni121]

BCE - Before the Christian Era
CE - Christian Era

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Yes!!!!-—I have done that and approve wholeheartedly!

[goat granny]

LOL you even got drool on my keyboard.

[CurlyDave]

dated 1 CE (i hate that term - it is AD) with crosses all over the place.

Of course you realize that the cross did not even begin to be used as a Christian symbol until the second century, and did not become popular until the 4th century.

I think the crosses come from some other source than early Christians.

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[tarawa]

good point....

BTW, Solar Empire is one ADDICTIVE game.

[Quix]

I’m somewhat skeptical of emphatic statements about that long ago.

Plausibly correct.

Possibly not AS correct as assumed.

[Salamander]

I would like to declare that here are no simians in my genetic pool.

That is all.

[bboop]

Interesting — they didn’t have crosses til 33 AD minimum...