MASADA
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-17_DJ_23.wmv">Alex reports from Masada, Israel.</a>)  The thousand defenders were able to survive for two years because they had more than a dozen of <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-17_DJ_23.jpg" target="_blank">these<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2010-05-17_DJ_23.jpg" target="_blank"> defensive assets--collectors of water from the Latin for "box"'
cisterns