Fintan wrote:Exquisitors! Over here! *points* Take him to the Room of a Thousand Comfy Ottomans, and prepare him for exquisition...or inhuming....or possibly both...
Yes, there are some really cool caves under Jerusalem, but you have to enter from a small hole, off the lit path, in Solomon's Quarries (which has another name, but I can't remember it), just outside the Old City wall, near the King David Hotel (I think). Pay the Palestinian "guard" a little extra when you go in. Bring a flashlight (torch). There are lots of pottery shards on the ground once you are in. There are entrances to lower sections that were closed off by the British when they left, that are supposedly vast and likely contained an underground city suitable for living during siege, or escape, as a Bedouin boy was once paid a few pounds to go way down through the cave and ended up coming out in a wadi a few miles from the city, on the way to Jericho. Some believe religious treasures were hidden or evacuated through the tunnels, and some believe the Ark of the Covenant passed through or may still be in the caves. Me, I just like crawling through caves. And I brought out lots of pieces of 1000+ year old pottery to give out to backpackers at the hostel I was living in at the time. I probably went down there a dozen times.

