This site was occupied by the Sicarii after they ejected a Roman garrison.
This site was occupied by the Sicarii after they ejected a Roman garrison. Lucius Flavius Silva led the Tenth Legion to lay siege to this site, which had originally been built up as a compound for Herod the Great. As part of the siege, Silva ordered the construction of a ramp up the mountain to this site, where today Israeli officers go to take an oath that "this site" shall never fall again. Identify this mountaintop site overlooking the Dead Sea where rebellious Jews committed mass suicide in 72 CE to prevent capture by the Romans at the end of the First Roman–Jewish War.
This site was occupied by the Sicarii after they ejected a Roman garrison.
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