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Masada (Hebrew: מְצָדָה məṣādā, 'fortress'; Arabic: جبل مسعدة) [1] is an ancient fortification in southern Israel, situated on top of an isolated rock plateau, akin to a mesa. It is located on the eastern edge of the Judaean Desert , overlooking the Dead Sea 20 km (12 miles) east of Arad .
The site of Masada was identified in 1842 and extensively excavated between 1963 and 1965 by an expedition led by Israeli ... First discovered in the 1930s, ...
The siege of Masada was one of the final events in the First Jewish–Roman War, occurring from 72 to 73 CE on and around a hilltop in present-day Israel. The siege is known to history via a single source, Flavius Josephus , [ 3 ] a Jewish rebel leader captured by the Romans , in whose service he became a historian.
They were written before 70 CE. 14 scroll manuscripts were discovered in Masada in 1963–1965. [ 7 ] The largest organized collection of Hebrew Old Testament manuscripts in the world is housed in the Russian National Library ( "Second Firkovitch Collection ") in Saint Petersburg .
The Masada myth is the early Zionist retelling of the Siege of Masada, and an Israeli national myth. [1] The Masada myth is a selectively constructed narrative based on Josephus 's account, with the Sicarii depicted as heroes, instead of as brigands.
Herodium – a synagogue from the 1st century AD was discovered in Herod's palace fortress at Herodium. [19] "Western Wall" at Jerusalem; Masada – the ruins of the small synagogue at the top of Masada is one of the most well-documented Second Temple Period synagogues. [20] Migdal Synagogue was discovered in 2009.
A map may prove that Marco Polo discovered America more than two centuries before Christopher Columbus. A sheepskin map, believed to be a copy of the 13th century Italian explorer's, may indicate ...
His father had bought three of the seven scrolls discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin goat-herd, and he had bought the other four in New York in 1954. [ 8 ] As an archeologist, he excavated some of the most important sites in the region, including the Qumran Caves , Masada , Hazor , Tel Megiddo and caves in the Judean Desert where artifacts from the ...