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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MASADA, Israel – An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada, the desert fortress ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Roman siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War lasted “mere weeks” overturning previous beliefs of a drawn-out battle ove several years, according to a new study. Researchers ...

Plumbing and travel rarely intersect happily. Pipes and cisterns are usually of interest to holidaymakers only when, in a cheap hotel or aboard an expensive cruise, they go wrong – often in an ...

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) ...