Roman Era Tomb Photographed

Near the main Beit Lehi campsite at Horvat A’muda is a narrow trail in the tall dried grass going East. At the end of the trail is a large rock with an arched opening about 12 inches tall in the center. UVU students and professors crawled through this narrow passage and found a 5-foot drop to a smaller opening cut into the stone many hundreds of years ago. Going face first down the incline and squeezing through a cobweb covered opening in the stone wall brings you into a small roman era tomb filled almost to the top with dirt. This tomb cut into the soft limestone with hand tools has 10 burial niches. Oren Gutfeld, the lead archeologist, said this was most likely meant to be a burial tomb for a family. Now you can view this tomb before it is excavated.

-J.J. Tenney, UVU Digital Media