March 28, 2019 09:06 pm | Updated 09:06 pm IST - Mount Sodom
TOPSHOT - Efraim Cohen of the Israel Cave Explorers Club, and of the Malham Cave Mapping Expedition, shows journalists salt stalactites in the Malham cave inside Mount Sodom, located at the southern part of the Dead Sea in Israel on March 27, 2019. - Israeli spelunkers announced on March 27 that a salt cave near the Dead Sea was over ten kilometres long, beating Iran's N3 cave in Qeshm to make it the world's largest. The cave, named Malham, is a series of canyons running through Mount Sodom, Israel's largest mountain, and spilling out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
Israeli researchers say they have discovered the world’s longest salt cave near the desert site where, according to the Bible, Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt.
The 10-km long warren of underground passages and chambers in Mount Sodom, overlooking the Dead Sea, was mapped out over two years by cavers from nine countries, led by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The cave is called Malham.
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