August
11
/ 2022
An Israeli archaeologist has been digging up and plotting the location of big roundish rocks in a specific area of ancient Jerusalem. But these are no building blocks, quite the opposite. They were fired into the city's walls by Roman siege engines in the Jewish–Roman wars. And now, for the first time, this Israeli archaeologist has mathematically plotted out the location from which those Roman siege engines fired their projectiles. The Jewish–Roman wars occurred between 66 and 135 AD when the Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean launched a series of large-scale revolts against the Roman Empire. No longer would the Jews stand for high taxation and religious repression of Emperor Nero. But the Roman siege engines made it difficult for
