Cave of The Seven Sleepers
Cave of The Seven Sleepers, also known as Kahf ar-Raqim, is a religious and archaeological site located in ar-Rajib village east of Amman. The site is linked to the story of the Seven Sleepers mentioned in the Quran (Surah Al-Kahf) and shared in Christian and Islamic traditions. The tale recounts how seven faithful young men fled to a cave to escape religious persecution, were put to sleep by God for 309 years, and awoke to find the world changed. The cave was discovered in 1951 by Jordanian journalist Taysir Thabyan and excavated in 1963 by archaeologist Rafiq al-Dajani. The site contains eight rock-cut tombs carved into stone with preserved bones, remains of a 6th-century Byzantine church, and two mosques from early Islamic and Tulunid periods.