Masada, the mesa/fortress has a long history
Mar 18th, 2009 |
In the year 70 AD the Roman general Flavius Silva and his 10th Legion arrived at the desolate site of what would be the last rebellion in the Roman-Jewish War. In front of them rose a massive flat-topped mesa known as Masada, from the Hebrew word “metzada”, meaning fortress. It was the refuge of the Hebrew rebels Silva had been sent to subdue.
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