The source of the building stones for Jerusalem's Second Temple may have been discovered. The vast quarry spans about 37,674 square feet (3,500 square meters) and contains building blocks, some of ...
Many people have the idea that, in biblical times, the Jerusalem temple was exclusively for Jewish use. This is a natural assumption, given the hostilities that led to the Jewish War of the A.D. 60s, ...
Herodes war einer der größten Bauherren aller Zeiten. Er hat den Tempel in Jerusalem, die Burg auf Massada, das Herodion, den Palast in Jericho, den Hafen von Caesarea und vieles mehr gebaut. Auf der ...
Non-Muslims use a wood ramp to enter the complex, home to the gilded Dome of the Rock, an Islamic shrine, and the Western Wall, holy to Jews. Polaris My stint as an amateur archaeologist began one ...
Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out his ...
King Herod’s mausoleum, which long eluded archaeologists, sheds light on the ruler’s turbulent reign—and its effect on Jesus’s early life. Desert strongholdSince its construction a few years before ...