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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.744834
Israeli Researchers Find Galilee Caves Used by Jewish Rebels to Hide from the Romans
(Ha'aretz) Philippe Bohstrom - Israeli scientists in the Galilee have discovered hundreds of limestone caves in which Jews hid from Roman troops 2,000 years ago during the Great Jewish Revolt (66-70 CE). Embellishments such as baths, water cisterns, and candle niches carved into the rock show that the caves had been prepared for extensive habitation. Pitchers, pottery shards, coins, and other artifacts dating to the 1st century CE were found, as well as dozens of Roman arrow-heads that had been shot into the caves, said Dr. Yinon Shivtiel from the Safed Academic College and Vladimir Boslove of the Israeli Cave Research Center.