Looking out over the rugged, peacefully beautiful landscape surrounding the former Jewish fortress of Masada in Israel, it is difficult to imagine the violence and tragedy that occurred here in ...

Courtesy of The Jewish Community of Wroclaw (JTA) — Several children in Poland toppled 63 headstones of Jewish graves because they wanted to use the slabs to build a fortress, they told police.

“Both built a fortress and named the site after themselves ... there are reasons to believe they might have been buried there,” he said. Jewish rebels extensively used Herodium during the ...

Several children in Poland toppled 63 headstones of Jewish graves because they wanted to use the slabs to build a fortress, they told police. The group of five 12-year-olds had been working on the ...

The legend of Masada is etched into Jewish lore: For years, the story goes, ancient Jews held out in a desert fortress against their Roman foes. Now, researchers from Tel Aviv University have ...

Exactly how many Jewish rebels committed suicide at the Masada hilltop fortress in 73 CE is unclear, but archeological evidence shows it was the site of a lengthy Roman siege against the Jews. Photo ...

The fortification is believed to have been part of a system of defenses known as the Acra fortress, built by Antiochus as he sought to quell a Jewish priestly rebellion centered on the Temple.

Desecrated Jewish burial ground at the Hasmonean Fortress at Jericho The volunteers found catacombs plundered, the sarcophagi stolen, and human remains that had been at rest there for more than ...