Pottery vessels dating back to over 2000 years ago were salvaged over the weekend during a complex rappelling operation from a cave on a cliff along the Lebanon border.
In a coordinated and strenuous effort, with the supervision of the IDF, excavators climbed up ropes into the cave to carry out the excavation. The fragile finds, including two intact wine jars, several storage jars, a bowl, a cooking pot, two juglets and broken shards of several more jars, were successfully lowered 30 meters down on ropes to the base of the cliff in a join operation of Zefat Academic College, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), the Israel Cave Research Center and the Israel Cave Explorers Club.