The death itself occurs in at an old cave site and offers some very descriptive details of sites which Christie herself would have visited in order to write the book.

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.

Early evidence of such practices appears as markings on bones and cave walls, which show that lunar cycles were being noted as early as 25, 000 years ago ; the first step towards recording the Moon ’ s influence upon tides and rivers, and towards organizing a communal calendar.

* 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

The Ajanta Caves ( Ajiṇṭhā leni ; Marathi: अज िं ठ ा ल े ण ी) in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India are 30 rock-cut cave monuments which date from the 2nd century BCE to the 600 CE.

A. mexicanus is famous for its blind cave form, which is known by such names as blind cave tetra, blind tetra, and blind cavefish.

Astyanax jordani, however, is another blind cave fish, independently and recently evolved from the sighted surface form, which is sometimes confused with the cave form of A. mexicanus.

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.

The " two-troll tradition " refers to " a Norse ' ecotype ' in which a hero enters a cave and kills two giants, usually of different sexes.

The path continues to ascend, and the side of the ravine, on which it runs, becomes steeper, until a cave is reached above which the mountain now rises almost perpendicularly ; while on the right, it strikes in a rapid descent down to where, in St Benedict's day, below, lay the blue waters of the lake.

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

During WWII, an alpine team composed of Pierre Chevalier, Fernand Petzl, Charles Petit-Didier and others explored the Dent de Crolles cave system near Grenoble, France which became the deepest explored cave in the world (- 658m ) at that time.

Marked paths may show ways around notably fragile areas such as a pristine floor of sand or silt which may be thousands of years old, dating from the last time water flowed through the cave.

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

The type specimen was the Taung Child, an Australopithecine infant which was discovered in a cave.

The most conspicuous sign of prehistoric human settlements are the famous paintings in the northern Spanish cave of Altamira, which were done c. 15, 000 BC and are regarded as paramount instances of cave art.

The bell tower stands on a mound that is the site of the original cave which according to various myths is an entrance which leads inside the earth to a place of purgatory.

Yob later developed Wumpus 2 and Wumpus 3, which offered more hazards and other cave layouts.

This was due to a visit he paid to a pool of water downstream from the cave where St. Rosalia's remains were found, where he developed ideas based on observations of water boatman.

Most of the world's important caves occur in limestone but Table Mountain is unusual in having several large cave systems that have developed in sandstone.

It was originally explored in 1929 by Leo Lambert who developed trails and installed lights and opened the cave to the public on June 28, 1931.

Although the least developed region in the country, it features some of the most pristine rainforests, extensive cave networks, coastal lowland plains, and offshore cays.

One cave, Mitchelstown Cave itself, is privately owned and has been developed as a show cave, with a number of caverns open to the public through a guided tour.

The swiftlets or cave swiftlets have developed a form of echolocation for navigating through dark cave systems where they roost.

In the 1990s, cave diving equipment configurations became more standardized, due mostly to the adaptation and popularization of the " Hogarthian Rig ", developed by several North Florida cave divers ( named in honor of William " Hogarth " Main ) which promotes equipment choices that " keep it simple and streamlined ".

Part of it has been developed as a show cave with electric lighting and walkways and there are tours of different lengths and difficulty.

In April 2011 it was announced by David Rankin, of the Hone Heke Foundation, that the bones of Hone Heke would be moved and buried at a public cemetery, as the land near the cave was being developed, and in May 2011 he supervised the move-although some Ngāpuhi questioned his right to do so.

Because of this, the Remans have adapted to low-light conditions and have developed very pale white skin similar to cave fish.

On the western side of Ingleborough is a large limestone plateau appropriately known as White Scars, below which runs the White Scar Caves, the entrance series of which has been developed as a show cave.

Originally seen as less important than the cave paintings that also marked prehistoric art, portable art was thought to be merely preceding sketches or plans to be developed in later, larger parietal, or permanent, art.

Such pieces have been interpreted by some archaeologists to be predecessors serving as sketches to a later, more developed cave painting.

The area around the natural entrance to the cave was further developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.

The rock of the cave and the Brevibacterium linens bacteria which developed in it, the constant temperature and humidity, act on the cheeses produced here.

In Eegah's cave, Roxy is reunited with her father, who tells her that he has begun to communicate with the caveman and has developed a theory as to the creature's astounding longevity.

“ inside looking ” or “ introspection ”) is a structured method of self-reflection developed by Yoshimoto Ishin ( 1916-1988 ) a business man and devout Jodo Shinshu Buddhist who, as a young man, had engaged in an ascetic ' contrition ' ( mishirabe ) practice involving sensory deprivation through dwelling in a dark cave without food, water or sleep.

Deep underground, an amazing collection of specialised wildlife has developed, including cave shrimps and the pale blanched trout which haunts underground rivers.

The cave was first developed as an attraction by Jay Gurley in the late 1950s.

During the Middle Ages a second tradition developed identifying Huldah's burial site with a cave carved out of the rock beneath a mosque on Mount of Olives.

Cave Spring is well known for the natural wonders of the cave and spring site where native Indians came to the area ( both Cherokee and earlier Mississippian culture ).

The more than 30 drawings and etchings found in the cave were dated to the Mississippian era ( 700 to 1300 CE ) using torches and other artifacts found nearby.