Jodi Magness trudged across the barren moonscape atop Masada, pointing to where ... of tourists and led The Times of Israel to a massive underground water cistern, one of 18 that sustained ...

To provide water for his pools, bathtubs, cisterns, and bathhouses ... The synagogue on Masada is one of the oldest in Israel, and was probably used for worship by Herod’s family.

The cliff-top fortress of Masada, located in Israel near the Dead Sea ... In addition, Masada had a system of water cisterns on the northwest slope and an extensive series of storehouses used ...

Jews first fortified Masada during the exhilarating years after theMaccabees drove the Greeks out of Israel and became ... bathtubs, cisterns andbathhouses, Herod built an intricate system of ...

Located southeast of Jerusalem, along the Israel-Jordan border ... While in the area, you must visit Masada, which sits about 60 miles south of Jerusalem along the southeast coast of the Dead ...

Masada was made a UNESCO world heritage site, the first in Israel, in 2001 ... included a deep cistern in the site that Mr. Campbell and his engineers are planning to use as a storm sewer ...

Pipes and cisterns ... above Israel's Negev Desert, the plumbing system is the climax of an extraordinary location. In this part of the Holy Land, "high up" is a relative term. Masada stands ...

The rugged landscape adjacent to the cisterns was awesome. Masada, the last Jewish bastion ... Once a place of despair, it is now a beacon of freedom as Israel marks its 70th anniversary of ...

The Israel Nature Society at Masada has teamed up with Chabad to ... who hid in one of huge cisterns of the palace during the suicide. Judaism forbids taking one’s life, and the episode does ...

The main details of the famous 1st-century Roman siege on Masada are extremely well-known: The years-long Roman soldiers’ ...

MASADA, Israel An Israeli anthropologist is using modern forensics and an obscure biblical passage to challenge accepted wisdom about mysterious human remains found at Masada. Masada is the desert ...