This category is for sites or pages related to the events ending the siege of Masada in the Jewish Wars of 68-74 A.D. The historian Flavius Josephus tells how the besieged Jews agreed upon, and implemented, a mass suicide pact. He was obviously not an eyewitness; modern historians and archaeologists have varying ideas about how accurate his account was.
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Relevant excerpt from the writings of Josephus.
Article on the suicides and archaeological excavations, also featuring a photograph and map of the area. From the Jewish Virtual Library.
Did hundreds of Jews commit suicide at Masada?
Article on the suicides and archaeological excavations, also featuring a photograph and map of the area. From the Jewish Virtual Library.
Did hundreds of Jews commit suicide at Masada?
Relevant excerpt from the writings of Josephus.
