Nation and World News » Was King Herod the Great really so ‘great’? What history says about the bad guy of the Christmas story Friday, December 15, 2023 12:05 am ...

Herod the Great, the king of Judea who ruled not long before the time of Jesus, seems to have eluded historians once again. In 2007 archaeologists announced they had found the great king's tomb, a ...

King Herod died in 4 BCE at his lavish Winter Palace in Jericho. His funeral procession set out from there for Herodium, on the fringe of the Judean Desert, where he was to be buried. Over time ...

Excavations suggested that the cave had little to no links to Jesus and that it could be the final resting place of Princess Salome, sister of King Herod the Great.

From 37 BCE until his grisly demise in 4 BCE, Herod the Great ruled over Judea. World history has anointed few with the epithet “the Great.” ...

Known both as the Finger of Og and as Herod’s Pillar, the 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple as part ...

Furthermore, it confirms that calcite-alabaster objects, such as Herod the Great's alabaster bathtubs, were quarried in Israel rather than Egypt.

After 2,000 years of indignity and ignominy, Herod the Great finally has gotten his revenge. During their revolt against Roman rule over Judea between A.D. 66 and 72, Jews who remembered King ...

Museum director James Snyder said the exhibit, "Herod the Great," is the museum's largest and most expensive archaeological project to date.

According to historical accounts, Herod the Great was the regional king of Judea, which contained the cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem. He ruled from about 37 B.C.E. until his death in 4 B.C.E ...

Sourcing Herod the Great's calcite-alabaster bathtubs by a multi-analytic approach. Scientific Reports, 2022; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-11651-5 ...