2968411 Coins, Masada (silver) by Roman; (add.info.: Herod the Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. According to Josephus, the Siege of Masada by troops of the Roman Empire towards the end of the First Jewish?oman War ended in the mass suicide of 960 people ??the Sicarii rebels and their families hiding there.); Photo 穢 Zev Radovan; out of copyright.