Masada

A visit to Masada this morning. A fortress built originally in about 34bc for King Herod on top of a high steep mountain. About 450 metres high, looking onto the Dead Sea. Get up there by cable car. Famous for an incident in about 72ad involving about 960 Jews escaping the seiging Romans, staked themselves up there for 1000 days. They had plenty of food and water to last them. Eventually Romans built a massive ramp and stormed the fortress. The Jews seeing this coming committed mass suicide rather than face becoming slaves. .... truly spectacularLeggi altro