North, South, East, or West, you can find our stuff anywhere and everywhere, including at the top of the world. The water bottle pictured above found its way to Masada, an ancient fortification in the southern district of Israel, situated on top of an isolated rock plateau. Masada is located on the eastern edge of the Judean desert and overlooks the Dead Sea. Herod the Great built palaces for himself on the mountain and fortified Masada between 37 and 31 BCE. Around 72 CE, at the end of the first Jewish-Roman war troops of the Roman Empire sieged Masada, resulting in the mass suicide of the roughly 960 people that were hiding there. To this day Masada is one of Israel’s most popular tourist attractions.
