it was called gamla, which means camel. >> she's dug throughout the holy land throughout her career. you see the breach in the wall where you have a hole that was bashed through the wall. then you continue down and the wall continues down the slope of the hill. one of the things you have to imagine when you're here is the roman legions stationed out here, all this artillery, the catapults. then they're bringing battering rams. >> 30 years after jesus' crucifixion, a defensive wall was built around this town to protect the 9,000 jewish farmers living there. that wall was an afront to their roman rulers. >> you have to realize that the r romans were ruling all of these different native peoples. if they allowed the jews to gain independence, their empire would have fallen apart, because all of these other peoples would have said, the jews did it, we can do it too. here we have a town frozen in town in 67 a.d., the moment it was destroyed by the romans. >> at least 5,000 jews died here. others may have escaped. and it was abandoned for 2,000 years. these rouen ue -- ruins and the artifac

gamla was abandoned for 2,000 years.uins and the art found here tell us how people lived in the first century. life in the first century was like the rest of the mediterranean world and empire. it was dirty. not hygienic, not sanitary. those were the the conditions that people lived in normally as matter of every day life 2,000 years ago. >> what was life like for a little boy growing up in first century nazareth. >> from a very early age, let's say, you already had to go out and work in the fields or help your father with whatever his craft was. here we have a grinding stone for grinding grain, because, of course, you had to grind grain before you could make your bread. this gives you a wonderful impression of what every day life was like in the first century. and the fact that your mother, every day, had to grind the grain to make the bread from scratch and draw water sis strin and bring it back to the house and walsh the clothes by hand. all of it would look very difficult and very poor lifestyle. this was the lifesty

. >> the bats el at gamla was first of three of the revolts.alem was under siege for three years and the second temple was destroyed. 1 million jews were slaughtered this is during the time of the gospel writers. when jesus was born the roman pact of peace prevailed. >> when the romans took over this area they issued laws that guaranteed the jews freedom of worship. by the first century by the time of jesus jews were building to accommodate these assemblies. we happen to be sitting in a first century synagogue building in the town of gamla. >> all seats going around and little bit of you see some of the columns and original decoration. >> it is more than worship. romans did not interfere with the jewish laws for daily living. but it did not exempt jews from being counted in the ro he man census. he was forced to travel with pregnant mary to bethlehem his ancestral home. >> he talked about the journey from nazareth to bethlehem. which route would they have taken from nazareth to bethlehem? >> i actually don't believe they made that trip. i think