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 ...

This was the first time archaeologists successfully restored a part of the Temple complex built by King Herod, who ruled in Jerusalem for three years beginning in 37 BCE, according to Gabriel ...

Participants don 3-D virtual reality glasses and step into a depiction of Herod’s second temple, a version of the temple that Christ would have seen, according to Tyler Quirante, 23, a senior ...

Excavation director Ofer Sion believes: “The stones that were quarried here were used by Herod to build the walls of the Temple. The immense size of the stones… indicates it was highly likely that the ...