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The Latest Research about Masada Isn’t Shocking, but Is Still Fascinating
Understanding the Roman assault.
In the past two weeks, there have been some attention-grabbing, even sensationalist headlines about new discoveries regarding the 1st-century Roman siege of Masada, the final redoubt of a group of Jewish rebels. The original journal article, by Hai Ashkenazi, Omer Ze’evi-Berger, Boaz Gross, and Guy D. Stiebel is fortunately freely available to the public, and its more modest conclusions are still fascinating. While most previous research has focused on the fortress of Masada itself, these researchers examined the battlements constructed by the Romans:
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The Latest Research about Masada Isn’t Shocking, but Is Still Fascinating
Understanding the Roman assault.