Cache of coins from Jewish revolt found in IsraelArchaeologists in Israel have found the largest ever cache of rare coins from the time of the last Jewish revolt against the Romans, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Hebrew University of Jerusalem Independent university in Jerusalem, Israel, founded in 1925. The foremost university in Israel, it attracts many Jewish students from abroad; Arab students also attend. said on Wednesday. The cache includes 120 gold, silver and bronze coins, as well as some pottery and weapons. It was found in a cave in the Judaean Hills near Jerusalem that served as a hiding place for the Jewish fighters during the so-called Bar Kokhba revolt Bar Kokhba revolt (132–135) (Hebrew: מרד בר כוכבא) against the Roman Empire, also known as The Second Jewish-Roman War or (132-136 CE), named after its leader. "This discovery verifies the assumption that the refugees of the revolt fled to caves in the centre of a populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. area in addition to the caves found in more isolated areas of the Judaean Desert," said Amos Frumkin of the Hebrew University Hebrew University of Jerusalem, at Mt. Scopus, Givat Ram, Ein Karem, and Rehovot, Israel; coeducational. First proposed in 1882, formally opened 1925. It is the world's largest Jewish university and is noted for its work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. . Most of the coins are in excellent condition and "were overstruck as rebels' coins on top of Roman coins" with imprints showing Jewish images and words such as the facade of the Temple in Jerusalem The Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש, transliterated Bet HaMikdash and meaning literally "The Holy House") was located on the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit) in the old city of Jerusalem. and the slogan "for the freedom of Jerusalem," the university said in a statement. Bar-Kokhba coins of this quality and quantity have never before been discovered in one location, it said. 
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