At https://phys.org/news/2024-09-roman-siege-masada-weeks-years.html … researchers from Tel Aviv University have used modern technology, such as drones and remote sensing, to generate an analysis of the Roman siege system at Masada. Contrary to widespread belief, the Roman siege in AD73 lasted no more than a few weeks.
At https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-astronomical-observatory-unearthed-in-ancient-egypt … which dates to the middle of the first millennium BC – in the 6th century. It was therefore contemporary the Babylonian period, and the Persian empire. Why did the Egyptians build an astronomical observatory at this point in time? What were they looking at? The mainstream position is that such observatories were only concerned with ancient calendars – and odd phenomena is not part of their mindset. Looking at it another way, it was roughly contemporary Ezekiels’ vision – thought to have involved auroral visibility as far south as Babylonia. A magnetic excursion event.