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 ...

Even though Scott’s 2005 film took place over a thousand years after the birth of Jesus—during the Third Crusade, in which England attempted to recapture the Holy Land—the location was the same.