There was a sniper's nest in a mountain cave, and it was picking off our men with devilish accuracy.

* in Labadea, east of Delphi, Trophonius, another son of Apollo, killed his brother and fled to the cave where he was also afterwards consulted as an oracle

At Alba Augusta ( Alba-la-Romaine ) the devastation was so complete, that the Christian bishop retired to Viviers, but in Gregory's account at Mende in Lozère, also deep in the heart of Gaul, bishop Privatus was forced to sacrifice to idols in the very cave where he was later venerated.

He was mentioned in the Quran as the " second of the two who lay in the cave " in reference to the event of hijra, with Muhammad where they hid in the cave in Jabal Thawr from the Meccan search party that was sent after them, thus being one of few who were given direct reference to in the Quran.

Prior to his death, according to the Book of Jubilees, Amram was among those who went to Egypt and recovered the bones of the sons of his grandfather and great uncles ( excluding those of Joseph which had already been brought to Canaan ), so that they could be reburied in the cave of Machpelah.

Plato used the word aeon to denote the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived was " behind " the perceived world, as demonstrated in his famous allegory of the cave.

Around the same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

When his father was slain with the priests of Nob, he escaped, and bearing with him the ephod, he joined David, who was then in the cave of Adullam ( 1 Sam.

The original ending, in which Ash oversleeps in the cave and wakes up in a post-apocalyptic future, was restored to the film for the UK VHS release, which also had the cinematic ending put in as a post credit extra.

On his way from Enfide, Benedict met a monk, Romanus of Subiaco, whose monastery was on the mountain above the cliff overhanging the cave.

It was from the well of Bethlehem that three of his warriors brought him water when he was hiding in the cave of Adullam.

In Asia, there was " Breast Mountain ", which had a cave where the Buddhist monk Bodhidharma ( Da Mo ) spent much time in meditation.

Their offer was refused and so 23 of the pirates landed and burned the inhabitants alive in a lime cave.

The apocryphal account that he composed his works in a cave on Salamis island was a late tradition and it probably symbolizes the isolation of an intellectual who was rather ahead of his time.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

Parts of the Book of Jeremiah have also been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls in cave 4 in Qumran.

* The scene where Bruce being a child falls into the cave and see a bat as his inspiration and his fear ( also used in Batman Begins ), something not mentioned in the prequels of Tim Burton.

When water percolates through limestone or other soluble carbonate rocks, it partially dissolves the rock and causes cave formation and characteristic stalactites and stalagmites and also forms hard water.

Caving — also occasionally known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing in the United Kingdom and Ireland — is the recreational pastime of exploring wild ( generally non-commercial ) cave systems.

Caving in the north of England, an area that is also popular for pit cave | pothole exploring

Cave-dwelling species are also very fragile, and often, a particular species found in a cave may live within that cave alone, and be found nowhere else in the world, such as Alabama cave shrimp.

The word " cave " can also refer to much smaller openings such as sea caves, rock shelters, and ghettos.

The discovery was also the oldest confirmed find of any musical instrument in history, until a redating of flutes found in Geißenklösterle cave revealed them to be even older with an age of 42. 000 to 43. 000 years.

Images believed to depict the Great Auk were also carved into the walls of the El Pinto Cave in Spain over 35, 000 years ago, while cave paintings 20, 000 years old have been found in France's Grotte Cosquer.

In Celtic mythology there is a legend of a cave called " Cruachan ," also known as " Ireland's gate to Hell ," a legendary and ancient cave from which according to legend strange creatures would emerge in ancient times and be seen on the surface of the earth.

There are also stories of medieval knights and saints who went on pilgrimages to a cave located in Station Island, County Donegal in Ireland, where they made journeys inside the earth into a place of purgatory.

Cooling groundwater or mixing of different groundwaters will also create conditions suitable for cave formation.

At least seventeen finds of Papaver somniferum from Neolithic settlements have been reported throughout Switzerland, Germany, and Spain, including the placement of large numbers of poppy seed capsules at a burial site ( the Cueva de los Murciélagos, or " Bat cave ," in Spain ), which have been carbon-14 dated to 4200 BCE Numerous finds of Papaver somniferum or Papaver setigerum from Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements have also been reported.

Stalactites can also form on concrete, and on plumbing where there is a slow leak and limestone ( or other minerals ) in the water supply, although they form much more rapidly there than in the natural cave environment ( description and experiments see literature ).

It is also the site of the first cave dives in Britain.

Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasess of artistic expression.

A recumbent winged sphinx carved in oolitic limestone was also discovered in a cave in the uninhabited Sitra Oasis ( between Bahrein and Siwa Oases ), whose provenance appeared to be Persian.

In Gough's Cave, England, remains of human bones and skulls, around 15, 000 years old, suggest that cannibalism took place amongst the people living in or visiting the cave, and that they may have used human skulls as drinking vessels.

The scaling-pole ( 1940 ), nylon ropes ( 1942 ), use of explosives in caves ( 1947 ) and mechanical rope-ascenders ( Henri Brenot's " monkeys ", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934 ) can be directly associated to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.

Lighter clothing may be worn in warm caves, particularly if the cave is dry, and in tropical caves thin polypropylene clothing is used, to provide some abrasion protection whilst remaining as cool as possible.

In pristine areas and for restoration, clean oversuits and powder-free, non-latex surgical gloves are used to protect the cave itself from contaminants.

In these mountain cave settlements, people lived who used tools, mastered fire, and used animal skin for warmth and other purposes.

" Evidence at the cave shows the Neanderthals likely used it as a shelter " for 100, 000 years.

As a natural pigment, it ( along with its chemical cousins ochre and umber ) was one of the first pigments to be used by humans, and is found in many cave paintings.

On 3 March 2002, a single laser guided thermobaric bomb was used by the US army against cave complexes in which Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters had taken refuge in the Gardez region of Afghanistan.

These discoveries were used to enable the show cave to be extended into Chamber 9 and the cave divers to start directly from here, bypassing the dive from Chamber 3 onwards.

The cave was used for the filming of episodes of the BBC TV series Doctor Who: the serial Revenge of the Cybermen ( 1975 ) starring Tom Baker.

& Coles, S. G. ( 1983 ) Concentrations of lead, cadmium, copper and zinc in teeth from a cave used for Romano-British burials: effect of lead contamination.

Dyed flax fibers that could have been used in clothing have been found in a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia that date back to 36, 000 BP.

A discovery reported in 2009 of spun, dyed, and knotted wild flax fibers in a prehistoric cave in the Republic of Georgia shows that the plant was already in use by humans at the surprisingly early date of 30, 000 B. C .. New Zealand flax is not related to flax but was named after it, as both plants are used to produce fibers.

The term Platonism is used because such a view is seen to parallel Plato's Theory of Forms and a " World of Ideas " ( Greek: Eidos ( εἶδος )) described in Plato's Allegory of the cave: the everyday world can only imperfectly approximate an unchanging, ultimate reality.

Some are complex cave networks with large underground chambers, thought to have been used for meditation by the rupestric and cenobitic monks.

Boggle Hole is a natural cave formed by wave action where smugglers used to land their contraband in past times.

That night, he swims out to the cave where the group's only boat is kept, only to find that Karl has used it to escape to the mainland.

Significant evidence of this mining activity remains in the cave, including evidence of large amounts of saltpeter-bearing dirt that were removed, pick marks in the dirt, and an elaborate system of trails used by the miners.

The cave was used by tourists and as a show cave, but in 1968 the cave was flooded by the Tennessee Valley Authority.