Masada National Park Today (Wikipedia)
Masada
72-73 CE
This mountaintop fortress was the sight of one of the final battles of the First Jewish-Roman War, where the Jewish population of Judaea revolted against Roman rule. After the fall of Jerusalem, Jewish refugees fled here and were surrounded by a Roman army. An earthen ramp was built to the top of the fortress, but when the Romans entered Masada, they found that almost all of the defenders had killed themselves. The siege is seen as a defiant stand against Roman imperialism.