According to Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian who recounted ... Roman officers pushed for the temple's preservation, but Titus overruled them, fearing it would become a centre of Jewish ...

During these thousand years, this period was nourished by legends and unfounded speculations, such as the alleged conversion of the Khazars, used to compensate for the lack of historical sources. It ...

1. (409) Now, when Titus was come into this [upper] city, he admired not only some other places of strength in it, but particularly those strong towers which the tyrants, in their mad conduct ...