Scholars believe that both the message and the four swords found alongside it may have something to do with the Bar Kokhba Revolt that pitted the Jews against the Romans between 132 and 135 C.E.

In 2023, a group of archaeologists climbed inside a cliffside cave overlooking the Dead Sea to investigate an ancient carving on a stalactite, a previously-documented 2,700-year-old inscription from the First Temple period. But hile there, they noticed another inscription carved into the rock right underneath it.

Dating back 1,900 years, this Aramaic message remains shrouded in mystery, though it may have a connection to the bloody Bar Kokhba Revolt, when Jewish people rose up against the Romans in the second century C.E.

The inscription, as well as the discovery of four ancient swords in the ca

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