The main details of the famous 1st-century Roman siege on Masada are extremely well-known: The years-long Roman soldiers’ encampment below the walls, the Jewish rebels’ last stand after the ...

The ancient mountaintop fortress called Masada has stood atop an isolated mesa in southeastern Israel for thousands of years. It stood as an impenetrable fortress build high above the desert landscape ...

When you glance at it from the highway, Masada looks much like any other mountain in the Judean desert. Yet it was on these heights, and in the middle of this dreary landscape, that King Herod the ...