Tabun Cave

#99 among destinations in Israel

Prehistoric site

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The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of the Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012. ()

Local name: מערת תנור Coordinates: 32°40'14"N, 34°57'56"E

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Tabun Cave – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: El Wad, Janco Dada Museum, Le Destroit, Château Pèlerin.

~210 ftE
Cave
El Wad, Atlit
2 min walk • El Wad is an Epipalaeolithic archaeological site in Mount Carmel, Israel. The site has two components: El Wad Cave, also known as Mugharat el-Wad or HaNahal Cave; and El Wad Terrace, located immediately outside the cave.
2.3 miNE
Art museum, Museum
Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod
59 min walk • The Janco Dada Museum is located in Ein Hod, Israel. It is a museum that exhibits the work of Marcel Janco as well as art from the Dada movement and contemporary art too. The museum was established in 1983, by a group of Marcel Janco's friends, with the purpose of conserving the works and ideas of the sole Dadaist living in Israel.
2.8 miNW
Forts and castles
Le Destroit
72 min walk • Le Destroit is a ruined medieval fortified road station, built by the Templars of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the early 12th century CE, located on the Mediterranean shore near a site where they later built the Chateau Pelerin castle, today close to the modern town of Atlit, Israel.
3 miNW
Forts and castles
Château Pèlerin
78 min walk • Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Pilgrim Castle, is a Crusader fortress located near Atlit on the northern coast of Israel, about 13 kilometres south of Haifa. The Knights Templar began building the fortress in 1218 during the Fifth Crusade.
3.1 miS
Prehistoric site
Skhul Cave
80 min walk • Es-Skhul or the Skhul Cave is a prehistoric cave site situated about 20 km south of the city of Haifa, Israel, and about 3 km from the Mediterranean Sea.
3 miNW
Forts and castles
Atlit naval base
78 min walk • Atlit naval base is a classified Israeli Navy base on the northern Mediterranean coast of Israel. The base is home to Shayetet 13, Israel's naval commando unit.
2.9 miSW
Forts and castles
Cafarlet
75 min walk • Cafarlet or Capharleth or Kafr Lam is an Early Muslim coastal fortress of the Roman castrum type. Today it is located inside Moshav HaBonim, Israel, on lands of the now abandoned Arab village of Kafr Lam.
5.1 miE
Town
Daliyat al-Karmel, Carmel City
131 min walk • Daliyat el-Karmel is a Druze town located on Mount Carmel in the Haifa District of Israel, around 20 km southeast of Haifa. In 2019 its population was 17,653.
4.1 miS
Human cultural and biological evolution
Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve
105 min walk • The Caves of Nahal Me’arot / Wadi el-Mughara, named here by the Hebrew and Arabic name of the valley where they are located, are a UNESCO Site of Human Evolution in the Carmel mountain range near Haifa in northern Israel.
6.4 miSE
Archaeological site
Nahal Tut Archaeological Site
163 min walk • Nahal Tut is an archaeological site excavated along the streambed of the same name in northern Israel's Menashe Heights from February to July 2005 by Amir Gorzalczany and Gerald Finkielsztejn in preparation for the northward extension of Highway 6.
3.4 miE
Archaeological site
Mount Carmel, Beit She'arim
86 min walk • Mount Carmel, also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias, is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reserve.