By i24news - May 10, 2022
'This cave was used as a hiding place for the Jewish rebels during the Bar Kokhba revolt'
Dr. Dvir Raviv, an archaeologist with Israel’s Bar Ilan University, spoke with i24NEWS on the history of the Tekoa Valley in the West Bank and the area’s ties to an ancient Jewish revolt.
“Geographically, we are standing on the seam line between the desert and the hillside. The place is very rich in caves,” Raviv told i24NEWS.
“There are natural water sources here - springs and small rivers - which have attracted refugees for hundreds of thousands of years.”
Raviv and his colleagues surveyed a collection of caves in the area back in 2019 and uncovered relics from the Bar Kokhba revolt - an ancient Jewish uprising against the Roman Empire.
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