Iran Press/Iran news: The cave is a natural limestone cave that is likely formed during the Tertiary geological era.
Karaftu cave has a special reputation among the caves all around the world, because of the changes, transformation, and manipulation in the Karafu cave and creating the nested spaces for rooms, hallways, and corridors through it during human habitation in this place in the past. The cave is unique in terms of building form.
Karaftu rocky cave has a four-story architecture at the heart of the mountain. There is a Greek inscription on the entrance of one room on the third floor it is why the cave is called Heracles Temple (Hercules).
The height of the cave entrance (the current entrance) from the hills was about 20 to 25 m and it had a rather difficult way on the back of the mountain.
Karaftu cave was underwater in the Mesozoic era and it came out of the water at the end of this period. There is still some water in the cave that one should use small boats to navigate throughout the cave.
The images and shapes painted inside the cave are the existing sights of these ancient monuments.
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