Ancient caves of Kashmir

Kashmir valley carries evidences of myriad such caves, the identity of many of which remains a great mystery even hundreds of years after they were first discovered

By Iqbal Ahmad

Kashmir valley carries evidences of few such caves, the identity of many of which remains a great mystery even hundreds of years after they were first discovered.

Who built these caves and for what purpose were they? These are some questions which remain unanswered to this day and are likely to remain a mystery for times to come.

Although the land has a very ancient tradition of cave digging, the earlier people used to dig out the under ground caves to provide shelters to their community. Those people have also find out some natural shelter to live in.

In early sixties and seventies un
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