Speleologist Prof Yinon Shivtiel of Safed Academic College while surveying caves in the present Galilee in northern Israel found two intact amphoras estimated to be more than 2,000 years old. This he says may have been used by Jewish rebels hiding from Roman soldiers during the Great Jewish Revolt between A.D. 66 and 70. Cooking and serving vessels found there made archaeologist Danny Syon to think that those who brought them planned to live there for a while. Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists believe they date these articles to an earlier period.
Geographical situations of ancient Israel, ancient Galilee, and ancient Rome are be seen through Ptolemy’s maps only; present Israel does not represent its ancient counterpart. It is the second settlements of some ancient Israelites who migrated from the ‘first-land’ and settled here.