Pan's Cave

3D Model

Pan’s Cave is located in Banias, Israel.

“The cliff above the area is 70m long and 40m high, and was probably the rear wall of a giant cave that once collapsed (earthquake of 1033AD), leaving only a fraction of that cave. The cave today is 20m wide by 15m high, and the water level during the winter season corresponds to the level of the springs. The Greeks held that the half-goat, half-man God Pan, lived in this mystical cave.

Josephus writes “… the place is called Panium, where is a top of a mountain that is raised to an immense height, and at its side, beneath, or at its bottom, a dark cave opens itself; within which there is a horrible precipice, that descends abruptly to a vast depth; it contains a mighty quantity of water, which is immovable; and when any body lets down any thing to measure the depth of the earth beneath the water, no length of cord is sufficient to reach it …”“