The team managed to extract genetic material from an ancient leg bone found in 2003 at the site of Tianyuan Cave outside Beijing.

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The site includes a cave complex, dive pool and roadways.

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Professor Ron Clarke of Wits University in South Africa recently took CNN deep inside the Sterkfontein Cave at the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site to expose one more example.

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The chain plans to open another vegetarian outlet in north-western India, near the Vaishno Devi cave shrine in Kashmir, which is a Hindu pilgrimage site that attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.

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Tens of thousands of people come here every year to visit a cave where Abraham may have been born and a fishpond marking the site of the pyre where he was almost burned up by Nimrod, except that God transformed the fire into water and the coals into fish.

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The site is rich in fossils and a new species of blind cave shrimp was recently discovered here.

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Art historians at the University of Chicago have digitally recreated another Buddhist cave temple complex at Xiangtangshan in northern China, where many of the site's original sculptures have been lost or removed.

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As it takes about two and a half hours to reach the site from Yogyakarta, visitors may prefer to spend the night near the cave.

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Hebron is home, among other things, to what is generally considered the second-holiest Jewish site, housing the Tombs of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) in the Cave of Machpela in a building shared with the Ibrahimi mosque.

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