of the most extremist elements opposing rome. ghardent supporters, fled in the midd of the war to masada>> (dramatized): here had been stored a mass of corn amply sufficient to last for years, an abundance wine and oil. there was also found a mass of arms of every description hoarded up by the king and sufficient for 10,000 men. >> narrator: from the heights of masada, the defenders could see the roman ar surrounding them. the outlines of their camps andg works are still visible from the air. >> if you were a roman soldier approachinmasada, i think your heart would sink because you know that you would have to... fit, to spend a lot of time building a lot of ramps, massive ramps, to move the army the sides in order to breach the walls. but you would ow in the process that you were on a suicide mission, because all the while, the fortifiers and guardians of masada would have of lethal objects at, bt, number great losses to the army. the siege and its aftermath. (d amatized): the romans expected to make an assault upon the fortress, which they did. but theyaw nobody but a terrible solitude