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 ...

There are few places more intertwined with the identity of a country and a people than the hilltop fortress of Masada. From Herod the Great's isolated citadel atop a 400-metre-high plateau in the ...

Who knows what really transpired at Masada, the desert fortress that today serves as a symbol of Jewish heroism and Israeli national pride? Did its residents listen to an impassioned speech by their ...

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(JTA) — The legend of Masada is etched into Jewish lore: For years, the story goes, ancient Jews held out in a desert fortress against their Roman foes. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University have ...

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The Masada National Park is one of the world’s most stunning locations home to little else but panoramic mountains and an ancient fortress atop the cliffs - a UNESCO World Heritage site steeped in ...

This morning, sirens sounded at the much-visited archaeological site on the south-western shore of the Dead Sea after a drone entered Israeli airspace from the east. According to Israeli media reports ...

Dr Dominic Selwood is a historian and barrister. He is the author of Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers: The History You Weren’t Taught at School (2015), and the crypto-thrillers The Sword of Moses (2013) ...

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