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We know of it because Flavius Josephus, the traitorous Jewish general who joined the Romans, bothers to refute it in his surviving writings.
In the 1960s, eminent Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin claimed to have found the bones of 960 martyrs there, thus confirming Josephus' account of their deaths.
Josephus attributes the argument to an Egyptian named Manetho who, in a counter-version to the Book of Exodus, asserted that the Hebrews weren't led out of Egyptian bondage by Moses.
Accompanying articles explore other Masada-related confusions: Josephus' text is ambiguous about where the martyrs actually fell, and the site itself was probably a center of political administration rather than a civilian refuge.