The legend of Masada is etched into Jewish lore: For years, the story goes, ancient Jews held out in a desert fortress against their Roman foes. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University have ...

For the first time, researchers have conducted a quantified analysis of the Roman siege at Masada. The team, from Tel Aviv University’s Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology, used a blend of ...

Mark rides a cable car to the top of a plateau where the ruins of the once great fortress Masada sit. Today Masada is a popular and valuable tourist attraction that provides context to one of Middle ...

The Roman siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War lasted “mere weeks” overturning previous beliefs of a drawn-out battle ove several years, according to a new study. Researchers ...

A newly published study suggests that the siege laid by the Roman army to the Judean desert fortress of Masada in 73 CE lasted no more than a few weeks, contrary to the long-held belief that the siege ...

(RNS) — Saturday night was a “leil shimurim,” a night of watching and waiting. I have deliberately borrowed that term from the biblical account of the Exodus from Egypt (Exodus 12:42) — which we are ...

A 2,000-year-old Biblical scroll on parchment containing Chapters 8 to 11 of the Book of Leviticus was discovered today at the ancient fortress of Masada in the Judean Wilderness as the Hebrew ...