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 ...

Israel’s tourism industry has seen a major drop in visitors over the past year, and it’s unclear when things will improve.

Furthermore, it confirms that calcite-alabaster objects, such as Herod the Great's alabaster bathtubs, were quarried in Israel rather than Egypt. Photo: Te’omim cave and the quarry on the right ...

In 'Ghosts of a Holy War,' Yardena Schwartz investigates the lies and denials that have fueled the Israeli-Palestinian ...

(page 1) In Biblical history, Herod “the Great,” Rome’s client king of Judaea (ruled 40 - 4 BCE) was an evil tyrant. There is no actual evidence for the atrocity he is most remembered for, the ...

Few figures in history have had such a controversial reputation as King Herod I of Judaea. In the Christian tradition, Herod is the villain in the Christmas story. The Gospel of Matthew recounts ...

An unfinished, previously unpublished novel from the legendary Harlem Renaissance author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, revealing Herod the Great not as the demon the Bible makes him out to be ...

And so he gives us a perspective on the whole century of development that had gone before, from the time of Herod the Great down to his own day, when these profound changes were taking place.

However, the large structure all around it, the large plaza, the porticos, the columns, the staircases, all of that, were built up by Herod the Great on a monumental scale, filling up, I think ...

An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born ...

This time, it's Mary of Nazareth as she stars in an upcoming Netflix film, Mary. Directed by I Am Number Four's D.J. Caruso, ...

Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon was named after Tiberius Claudius Herod Atticus, a wealthy Athenian who sponsored the building of this ancient outdoor ...