Probably dating from the 2nd century BCE, it was renovated by Herod the Great from 37 to 31 BCE, who added aqueducts, a bath-house, and two palaces.
Probably dating from the 2nd century BCE, it was renovated by Herod the Great from 37 to 31 BCE, who added aqueducts, a bath-house, and two palaces. In 66 AD it was seized by Zealots and held until 73 AD, when, after a two-year seige by 15,000 troops, all but two women and five children committed suicide rather than surrender. Located in the mountains 1,300 feet above the Dead Sea, FTP, what was this fortress, the symbol of national Jewish heroism?
Probably dating from the 2nd century BCE, it was renovated by Herod the Great from 37 to 31 BCE, who added aqueducts, a bath-house, and two palaces.
Masada