Secrets of underground settlements

Moresha is a mound and an ancient underground city on the way from the Gaza port to Jerusalem. Amazing discoveries and mysteries of the underground city. Sidon caves and columbarias. History of settlements and excavations: from ancient Eleutheropolis (Eliferopol) to Betgibellin of the Crusaders. Moresh is mentioned in Joshua (15:44) as one of the oldest cities in Judea. In the tenth century BC. e. the Jewish king Rehovaam strengthens the city and builds here fortifications to protect Judea from the hordes of the Egyptian Pharaoh Shishak (Sheshonka).

In Eleuferopol was killed Bishop Ananias, who at one time baptized the Apostle Paul. The governor of Lucian ordered the people to take Ananias, take him out of the city and stone him. Many amazing stories lie in the ruins of an underground city. Some oil crushers, with a total capacity of up to 300 tons of olive oil per year, about 30 columbaria, pottery workshops, the remains of the Church of St. Anne ... Beit Guvrin is an archaeological park with an open underground, one of the largest administrative centers of the Roman period.

Some of the ruins belong to the era of the Crusaders. Near the ruins is a ridge of hills with numerous caves, probably former quarries of the Philistines. In the first centuries of Christianity, the city was the center of the diocese of Eleuterpolis of Palestine, which was part of the Caesarian Metropolis of the Patriarchate of Antioch.