The UNESCO Expert Council has recommended postponing the inclusion of Crete's Minoan Palaces on the World Heritage List.

Oscar Wilde’s Salomé returns to the West End in a hypnotic new staging by Gesher Theatre and acclaimed director Maxim Didenko ...

That’s thanks to the film’s on-location shoot in ancient, abandoned villages in Morocco, and also, apparently, thanks to an old Ridley Scott set that Mary borrowed for King Herod’s palace in ...

The discovery of the remains of the ancient palace of King Herod in Massada, a water system in that area and a number of ancient Corynthian obelisks was announced here this week-end by Shmarya ...

Israel archaeologists, digging near Massada, in the Dead Sea area, have unearthed the ruins of the 2,000-year-old palace of King Herod the Great, the United Press reported from Jerusalem this week ...

Model of Herod’s palace in Jerusalem showing the three towers which he named after his closest friends: from left to right, Phasael, Hippos and Mariamne. Credit: Berthold Werner / Public domain / ...

Archaeologists say they have uncovered the remains of King Herod's palace in Jerusalem – and with it the site where the trial of Jesus may have taken place. The excavation of an old abandoned ...

King Herod’s mausoleum, which long eluded archaeologists, sheds light on the ruler’s turbulent reign—and its effect on Jesus’s early life.

King Herod the Great had his bathtubs made of alabaster quarried in Israel rather than Egypt, as has always been assumed, according to a research team at Bar-Ilan University. The ruthless ...

The two largest and most imposing structures of Jerusalem two thousand years ago were the Temple and King Herod’s royal compound that included his palace, a large water pool, and three large ...

ISRAELI archaeologists have undertaken an ambitious project to restore the palace of King Herod the Great, more than 2,000 years after its construction in the Judaean Desert.

She added that the niche at Machaerus looks similar to two niches found at the Upper Herodium, a palace-fortress built by King Herod, but those two niches have never been identified as the remains ...