One of Herod’s many architectural achievements.
His ancestry was questionable, but he may have kept kosher.
Discovered thanks to 94-year-old aerial photographs.
Elaborate Roman-style tiles.
Piecing together the fragments.
At the instigation of a 16th-century sultan.
A unique artifact.
Herod’s ambivalent relationship with Judaism.
Fancier than mosaics.
Herodian-era luxury.
Was the Second Temple only for Jews?
Herod the trendsetter?
Reviled by Jews and Christians alike, Herod was one of the world’s great builders.
Archaeologists have discovered a grand entryway, consisting of a series of massive arches, at King Herod’s hilltop fortress of Herodium in the Judean desert. And. . .