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 ...

This picture taken on November 24, 2020 shows an aerial view of the Herodium fortress, with King Herod’s tomb site and the theater built by Herod the Great between 23-15 BCE in the Judaean ...

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 ...

“Herod’s Second Temple plays a key role in our story and in the unrest it caused among the Judeans,” Carsuso said. “We used an old museum as the interior base and constructed a practical ...

HEROD'S TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM. ... or the great cities of the Mediterranean world. And so, when Herod built the city, or helped to rebuild the city, he did so on a monumental scale.

Beginning in 20 B.C. Herod set about rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem on a massive and magnificent scale; the Western Wall, the only part of this structure that survives, was the retaining wall.

Herod the Great proved himself a skillful builder, ... Herod’s remodeled temple was a much more grandiose structure than Solomon’s original temple, built about a thousand years earlier.

Herod the Great proved himself a skillful builder, responsible for the planning and construction of projects such as the city of Herodium; the extravagant harbor at Caesarea Maritima, on the ...