A British team of experts is helping restore the 2,000-year-old royal palace at Masada. The palace at one of Israel’s best-known archaeological sites — where zealots made their last stand during the Jewish revolt against Rome that began in 66 C.E. — has been badly damaged by wind, sand, water and salt. Stone slabs appear close to sliding off the cliff’s eastern side and the western side is already crumbling, according to officials with Israel’s Antiquities Authority.
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