And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
The Table of Jurgutha in Kelâat-Es-Senan, Tunisia
Around 112 to 105 B.C., King Jugurtha of Numidia used the mesa to hold off the Roman legions in his long war with them. The highest cliffs of the mesa still show signs of the steps his soldiers chiseled into the sheer rock to reach the top.
When the Romans went after the Jews at Masada, they camped around the base of the mesa and constructed ramps to get up to the top and attack. I have to wonder why they didn't do that here. Perhaps it wasn't thought of yet? This was about 200 years before Masada.
There isn't any water there. Maybe the Romans just needed to wait?
ReplyDeleteBy the look of it (see what looks like rings...?), it almost looks like a gargantuan petrified tree stump.
ReplyDeleteAnd the local Century 21 agent lists it as:
ReplyDelete"Spectacular view lot. Awesome drainage. No nearby neighbors."
When the Romans went after the Jews at Masada, they camped around the base of the mesa and constructed ramps to get up to the top and attack. I have to wonder why they didn't do that here. Perhaps it wasn't thought of yet? This was about 200 years before Masada.
ReplyDeletethose steps dont look chiseled. They look like rocks and mortar
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