The Roman siege of Masada at the end of the First Jewish-Roman War lasted “mere weeks” overturning previous beliefs of a drawn-out battle ove several years, according to a new study.

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of ...

In the first century ... due to the actions of the corrupt Roman governors and the internal struggles, both religious and political, between Jewish factions, events that soon lead to the uprising ...

It would be “extremely surprising” if the best historical source “forgot or did not know who were the Jewish leaders of this war which devastated the area,” writes Haggai Olshanetsky, ...

It was erected as part of King Herod the Great’s expansion of the Second Temple, initiated in 19 b.c. The Romans destroyed the Temple in the First Jewish–Roman War in a.d. 70. The Western Wall ...

It is possible that former Jewish soldiers of the Roman army led the rebels to a series of significant ... This shift and the fact that leadership in the first part of the war came from Roman ranks ...