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cave of the letters lookout

In the 1960s archaeologists excavated a cave in the southern part of the Judean Desert and uncovered various artifacts belonging to the Jews who escaped from the Romans at the last stages of the Bar-Kokhba Revolt (132-135 CE).

The discovery of skeletons indicates most of them did not survive. They died either from starvation or from suffocation, perhaps from a fire lit at the caves’ entry by the Romans. The most famous discovery was a cache of letters sent from Bar-Kokhba, the leader of the revolt, to the rebels of Ein Gedi, with various tactical and religious instructions. Following this discovery they called the cave – Cave of the Letters.

A monument above the cave marks the spot where the rebels’ skeletal remains were re-buried after being studied. The monument’s plaque was vandalized several times. On my last visit in 2018, it was repaired, again.

Setting a tour to the Cave of the Letters Lookout

The ‘Cave of the Letters’ viewpoint is from a cliff above Nahal Hever, which can only be reached with an off-road 4×4 vehicle.

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