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Favorite thing: It was very interesting to see this room where the sarcopagai were still in the process of being cut from the material of the cave wall itself. As the cave was dug deeper and deeper, as more and more chambers were added, the workers would cut the sarcopagai out as they dug the caves. Then they only had to wait for someone to come along and die so they could use them...
Written Sep 6, 2005
Favorite thing: Inside one of the burial caves you can see the "chamber" where the body was laid down in its final resting place. This is a period before the use of coffins and the size of the chiseled out "chamber" was determined by the actual size of the body to be placed there.
Written Sep 6, 2005
Favorite thing: Here you can see one of the burial caves that has not yet been excavated. The door has broken off its hinges and leans into the chamber. The chamber has, over time, become filled with debris all of which needs to be cleaned out during excavation.
Written Sep 6, 2005
Main attraction of the National Park of Bet She'arim is the Jewish underground cemetary which was dug into the rocks at the ancient city Bet Shearim. A footpath connects the different caves of which...
Beit Shariem - Rabbi burial and wannabes
Beit Shariem, near Kiryat Tivon in the north is the burial place of Rabbi Yehuda Hanassi. Many people (wannabes) wanted to be buried in close proximity. The result is a system of burial caves covering...
Right next to the town of Tiv'on, you will find the burial place of some of the most prominent scholars and leades of Judea during the Roman rule, around two thousands years ago.
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