FORTRESSES
THE LIBRARY AT MASADA
Niches cut into the rock face in the library at Masada Given the limited amount of space in the Northern Palace at Masada, the library must have been a priority for designers. As the photograph above shows, niches for the scrolls were cut into the rock face. The climate at Masada is extremely dry, and even though almost two thousand years have passed, excavators found remnants of two Biblical books. They were from the Books of Deuteronomy and Ezekiel (see 'BIBLE STUDY GUIDE' for extracts from these books) and may have belonged to the Zealots who made their last stand at Masada. The library probably also held administrative and reference scrolls.
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