The fast day is a moment to consider Jewish power as well as Jewish powerlessness, writes a rabbi and author based in Israel.

Most non-Jews would say Jerusalem was lost twice because the Babylonians and Romans destroyed it. Both empires and their armies were very big and very strong. No one else could defeat them at that ...

Two thousand years after the minting of this coin, we come along a few days before Tisha B'Av and find such a moving testimony to that great destruction,” says archaeologist ...

After the capitulation of the rebellion, the soldiers settled in the greater Jerusalem area, and established shops to produce the 10th legion’s unique, with the stamped insignia, LXF.

While excavating the site for a planned ritual bath for Jews in Jerusalem, Israeli archaeologists uncovered a pool belonging to the Roman legion that sacked the city nearly 2,000 years ago.

The history of Jews in and around the Roman Empire was famously fraught — particularly during the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

The Romans suppressed worship in Jerusalem after they defeated a Jewish revolt in A.D. 135. But the lamp shows the persistence of Jewish belief there in the centuries that followed, Chernin said.

After David Roberts (Scottish, 1796–1864) Scottish 1796 1864 Title: The siege and destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans under the command of Titus, A.D. September 71, by Louis Haghe , 1851 Medium: ...

For many years, historians’ understanding of the Roman siege of Masada, which took place on a mountain in present-day Israel around 73 C.E., relied primarily on a detailed account by the famous ...

In 72 CE, the Roman governor of Judaea, Lucius Flavius Silva, led Legion X Fretensis, several auxiliary units, and Jewish captives, totaling some 15,000 men and women to lay siege to the 960 ...