When Rome finally breached the walls of Masada, they found not victory but silence, and a story that would echo across centuries. From the ashes of the Great Jewish Revolt rose a legend that shaped ...
In 72 CE, the Roman governor of Judaea, Lucius Flavius Silva, led a full legion and several auxiliary units, including Jewish prisoners of war, totaling some 15,000 men and women, of whom an estimated ...
Some pistols win with branding. The IWI Masada tends to win with the people who actually buy it, shoot it, and quietly wonder why more shoppers overlook it. It solves the practical problem most buyers ...
Researchers from the Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University have used a range of modern technologies, including drones, remote sensing, and 3D digital modeling, to ...
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Reports came last week that President Donald Trump would avoid visiting the ancient site of Masada in the Judaean desert during his trip to the Middle East because his helicopter was not allowed to ...
High atop a cliff in the Judaean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea, the ancient fortress was built by Alexander Jannaeus, the second Hasmonean king of Judaea. Masada means, literally, fortress, so ...