Masada: The Jewish Revolt and the Siege Rome Wanted Remembered

The Roman siege works are still there. Eight camps, a wall around an entire mountain, a ramp you can walk up — all of it measurable to the meter. The last stand rests on the word of one man.Around AD 73, three years after the war was effectively over — Jerusalem taken, the Temple burned, the triumph already celebrated in Rome — the empire marched a legion across waterless desert to deal with a few...