Masada! How 960 Jews chose suicide over death rather to a slave to Romans? #masada, #ancienthistory

Josephus' narrative: The TRUE Story of MASADA: Israel's Defiance of the Roman Empire . When the ancient Romans overtook Judea in the first century A.D., the grounds became a fortress for the Jewish people.

IT’S NEARLY 2000 YEARS ago, at a remote hilltop fortress in the Judean desert, 960 Jews chose suicide over death rather to a slave to Romans

How did the Romans build a ramp at Masada?

The Roman legion surrounded Masada and built a circumvallation wall, before commencing construction of a siege ramp against the western face of the plateau, moving thousands of tons of stones and beaten earth to do so. Ref: GH

[bobbyallen]

Imagine what went through the Roman commanders minds after they spent all that time building that ramp only to find corpses 😂