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ILLUSTRATION BY ROCÍO ESPÍN PIÑAR; COURTESY GYŐZŐ VÖRÖS

VISUALIZING SIEGE. Taken decades before modern urban development masked much of Jerusalem’s natural topography, a 1917 German aerial photograph provided a realistic backdrop for where the Roman siegeworks and legionary camps were positioned around the city in AD 70. This unique view of the landscape, combined with new topographic and geospatial survey data, served as the basis for a full artistic reconstruction (shown here) of how Jerusalem may have looked on the eve of the Roman destruction.