In 2009, an Israeli cave researcher discovered an ancient necromancy cave that was once believed to be a portal to the underworld.
This month the Harvard Theological Review published over a decade of studies from the Israel Antiquities Authority and Bar-Ilan University.
Hidden deep in Te’omim Cave in Jerusalem, researchers have discovered evidence of ritual magic practices left behind in ancient times. All the finds date back to the late Roman and early Byzantine periods.
Found in the cave were indications of dark magic ceremonies. And the researchers believe this is where necromancers attempted to conjure the spirits of the dead.
Necromancy also known as “death magic” was the practice of sorcery involving communications with the dead by summoning their spirits as apparitions or visions. And the cave was once considered a portal to the underworld, an oracle, and a physical representation of a Chthonic deity. It was where ancient witches dedicated their ritual magic.
Necromancy cave
Boaz Langford’s discovery in the Judean Hills, Israel, unearthed 120 gold, silver, and bronze coins, several 2,000-year-old human skulls, 120 oil lamps, and ceremonial daggers. No additional human bones were discovered with the skulls.
