Digging Up Masada (Episode 14) Along the western shore of the Dead Sea, amid the vast and unforgiving wilderness of Judea, we find a precipitous plateau, isolated by millions of years of erosion that turned it into an impregnable fortress. The Hebrew word for fortress is Masada, by which it is still called to this day. Its greatest claim to fame derives from events that transpired at the end of the Great Revolt against Rome, when for three years (70-73 CE), the freedom fighters on this ancient Gibraltar – known as the Sicarii – managed to hold off 10,000 Roman troops. But it’s up to us find the lessons, knowing that those who fail to learn from the mistakes of the past are condemned to repeat them. Dr. Kenneth Hanson, http://drkenhanson.com/