Whew Zac, that was one heck of a climb. Well done my boy!
There is actually a source of delicious cold water up here too which we drank copious quatities of.
Its quite a large area on the summit & archeological digs are still being carried out. A majestic place & no doubt easy to defend.
But by the time the Jewish zealots took the place over there wasn't much left of Herods comfortable palace ...so the living conditions would have been harsh to say the least.
Then of course those tricky clever Romans constructed a ramp of earth & stone, & this pic shows the incline up which they built it & as you can see a good portion of it is still there. Then they pulled & pushed their siege machines up this slope. Hard to believe huh!!! You are looking stright down the slope from top to bottom,believe it or not!
I thought for a moment that "Ol MO ,' had got lost & ended up there as well.!!
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