Zedekiah's Cave

Under the houses of the Old City of Jerusalem, there is a vast hidden cave. According to Jewish history, it is the cave from which the Jewish king Siddiqiyahu fled from the Chaldeans. Inside the cave there is a wonderful water spring that was named the Fountain of Siddiqiyahu's Tears. In the late nineteenth century, archaeologists found in the cave a statue of a legendary winged figure resembling the Sphinx in its details. It was from this cave that the stone known as Malka was extracted, which is a building stone of very high quality, and from which the most luxurious buildings in Jerusalem were built. Much mystery surrounds the history of this cave, which covers an area of nine thousand square meters, and its discovered length is close to 250 meters, and its highest height reaches 50 meters. It is believed that Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali, the judge of Jerusalem in the Mamluk era, who wrote a book in which he chronicled the cities of Jerusalem and Hebron, about five centuries ago, intended this cave when he mentioned in his book "The Linen Cave."