As told in I Maccabees 2:29

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• Archaeologists have uncovered a cache of 2,200-year-old silver coins near the Dead Sea, which they say is the first physical proof that Jews fled to the Judean Desert during the upheaval and persecution under Hanukkah villain Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

2,200-year-old coin hoard gives hard proof of Book of Maccabees, say archaeologists