By the time Cantona was born in 1966, the hillside cave had become little more than a room in the family's house, which was now up to a liveable standard.

It is all about bird's nest soup, an expensive delicacy in Asia that for centuries has been made with nests harvested from hillside caves.

Guenhwyvar circled on the rocks up above the hillside cave.

Conor had always loved learning, and when he was quite little he had struck up a bargain with a Christian hermit who lived in a hillside cave above the southern lakeshore.

Once, out in the bush, she had found two skeletons in a hillside cave, locked in each other's arms as if death itself could not separate them.

Black Panther members stay on the run, moving between hillside caves and village safe houses, wary of discovery by the disguised army teams.

Many olive groves and wine presses testify to a long history of agriculture in the area, and numerous hillside caves show signs of ancient habitation.

Fearing that other Americans would come looking for the marines, the villagers dumped the bodies in a hillside cave, which has a 50-foot drop just inside the mouth, and they vowed never to speak of the incident to outsiders, the Okinawans said.

"You think of the ones who did not survive, who did not get married, who did not have kids," he said in the cool stillness of the hillside cave.

The final group included Comrade Chavez, in a well-shielded hillside cave only three klicks away, which explained a great deal when the tank blew most of the hillside away to get at it.