Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Mount Scopus is a mountain (elevation: 2710 feet or 826 meters above sea level) in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity. A Roman Legion camped there in 66 CE. Again in 70 CE Mount Scopus was used as a base to carry out a siege of the city by the 12th, 15th and 5th Legions (the 10th legions position being on the Mount of Olives). The Crusaders used it as a base in 1099.