Show excavating cave of sleepers of ephesus A cave for centuries the accredited resting place of the seven sleepers of ephesus Fp hesus la now being excavated by austrian scientists at ephesus thirty one miles from smyrna in an attempt to obtain light on the ancient legend seven young men of ephesus upon being persecuted for refusing to worship an idol ran away and hid in a cave to the legend the emperor ordered their cave to be sealed up in A D a workman digging the foundations of a house broke into the cave and found seven men asleep in it they woke up ft hen he called to him money to buy them and gave bread and wine for them the coins minted more than were of a variety previously and the teven years men were declared to be the same as those walled up in A D the affair wa officially proclaimed a miracle into ft coma the sleepers soon sank again and died the legend runs their removed to marseilles remains were later se illes france |