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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Photo: Huge Underground Chamber Found--Early Christian Refuge?


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A human-made, underground cave (pictured)—the largest in Israel—likely began life 2,000 years ago as a quarry but may have gone on to become a monastery, a refuge for persecuted Christians, or a Roman army base, experts said in June 2009.

Photograph courtesy Moshe Einav, University of Haifa