Visit the Ruins of King Herod’s fortress in Masada

Mark rides a cable car to the top of a plateau where the ruins of the once great fortress Masada sit. Today Masada is a popular and valuable tourist attraction that provides context to one of Middle Eastern History’s great stories. In 2001 the fortress was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO and has, before and since, undergone a restoration that provides any interested traveler with a very good idea of what Masada may have been like in the first century AD.

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