Our guide, Sagi, picked us up at 8:00 AM and we headed to Masada. Against Paul’s opinion, I climbed the Snake Path instead of the tram.
After the Romans conquered Jerusalem in 70 CE, almost a thousand Jews-men, women and children-made a desperate last stand atop Masada, a desert Mesa surrounded by sheer cliffs and, from 72 CE, the might of the Roman Empire’s Tenth Legion. Archaeological excavations began in 1963. Masada has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.