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In King Herod's day, the corridor was designed to lead directly into the palace courtyard — but archaeologists determined during the excavations that it didn't get much use.
Ehud Netzer, an Israeli archaeologist best known for excavating King Herod's winter palace and discovering the monarch's tomb there, died Oct. 28 at a hospital in Jerusalem after falling at the site.
Excavations of a colossal fortress built by King Herod the Great have uncovered the palace's dramatic entrance way. The arched entrance and corridor, built around 20 years before the birth of ...
King Herod's Tomb Almost Certainly Found. Associated Press. Published November 20, ... Netzer described the winter palace, built on a largely man-made hill 680 meters (2,230 feet) ...
King Herod’s most ambitious project was Herodium, a fortified palace on top of a hill in the Judean desert. Honeycombed with passages and chambers, it also became his mausoleum. Now ...
King Herod, who appears in the Bible's story of Jesus' birth, apparently did not use the unearthed corridor much; the archaeologists think the entryway was back-filled when the palace was turned ...
Israeli archaeologists have excavated a lavish, private theater box in a 400-seat facility at King Herod’s winter palace in the Judean desert, the team’s head said Tuesday.Ehud Netzer of ...
Israeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod’s palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial plot ...
Israeli archaeologists have excavated a lavish, private theater box in a 400-seat facility at King Herod's winter palace in the Judean desert, the team's head said Tuesday.
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 ...
Between 23 and 15BC, King Herod the Great constructed a fortress, palace and small town on the cone-shaped mound, and was later buried there. Herod was born around 73BC and was governor of Galilee ...
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