Under Siege: How Rome Conquered Jerusalem

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The fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70 were pivotal events in biblical history. But while archaeology has revealed abundant evidence of Jerusalem’s destruction, little has been found of the siegeworks the Romans built to capture the city. Examine the historical and archaeological clues that reveal how the Romans brought the city to heel.

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Footnotes

1. See Strata, “The Third Wall of Jerusalem: Where Romans and Jews Battled,” BAR, May/June 2017.

Endnotes

1. For further discussion, see Győző Vörös, “Jerusalem, Machaerus, and Masada in AD 70, 72, and 73: Comparative Analysis of the Three Subsequent Roman Circumvallation Siege Walls in the Lights of the Archaeological Evidence and the Narrative Accounts of Flavius Josephus,” Liber Annuus 74 (2024), pp. 215–245.