Itai Schkolnik

Caving in the Holy Land (Pictorial Book) Itai Schkolnik

The human-being have been using caves all over the world since the beginning of time. Caves were used for different purposes such as hiding, refuge, treasure keeping, burial and also for living. Many cultures around the globe used caves for those purposes for millions of years. Israel itself have become an important area in the old days for prehistoric people who traveled from Africa towards Europe and some of them stopped along the way to live inside caves. In fact, in the Carmel Mountains there are caves which were found being populated in the past by Neanderthals for almost 500,000 years - the longest period ever documented of human-beings living in the same cave. Enter into the world of Caves in the Holy Land and discover the amazing and unknown caves which exist in Israel. In this book you will find many interesting caves' descriptions, archaeology, location of these caves along with amazing photographs taken by the Caver and Photographer Itai Schkolnik.