These pictures were taken at Masada. The Dead Sea is in the background. This was a Fortress-Palace built by Herod the Great and later used by Jewish rebels who fled Jerusalem in 70 AD when Roman armies destroyed the area. Flavius Josephus was one of the rebels who held out here and is the primary source for the history of the war as well as an important source for our historical information about First Century Judaism outside of the Bible and Talmud.
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