In 2007, archaeologist Ehud Netzer announced that he had discovered Herod's Tomb ... the 2012 Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. The great romance of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ...

(The Conversation) — Historians know a fair bit about Herod the Great, the king of Judea at the time of Jesus’ birth. (The Conversation) — King Herod will sound familiar to anyone who’s ...

For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Herod the Great, the king of Judea who ruled not long ... Patrich and Arubas say. [See Images of the Mysterious Tomb] For instance, the building is small compared with other royal tombs of the ...

But Hurston, unlike Herod, dared everything and lost. When Scribner’s rejected the work in 1955, she assured her editor that ...

Impressive architectural projects and oppressive cruelty — these are the legacies of the complex Judean king known as Herod the Great. On the one hand, he rebuilt the Second Temple in Jerusalem ...

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out ...

It involves an optical illusion created by two images in one drawing ... The Bible says Jesus was born during the days of Herod the Great. Caesar had appointed Herod as king, ruling over the ...

‘Great’ but severe Herod the Great proved himself a skillful builder ... (Credit: Israel Fuguemann/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Jewish men pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, part of ...

“You have no idea the great amount of research that I have ... in the Judaean desert Menahem Kahana / AFP via Getty Images When Herod died in 4 B.C.E., his demise was long and painful.

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 ...