Jerusalem's ... construction of the temple, with some of them weighing about 2.5 tonnes. They also found a stone jar supposedly used for purification purposes. King Herod, who ruled the kingdom ...

A stone quarry dating from the Second Temple period, recently uncovered in a northern Jerusalem neighborhood, contains massive limestone slabs that were likely used in King Herod’s various ...

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. Known both as the Finger of Og and as Herod’s Pillar ...

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 300-meter-long (984-foot) stretch of an ancient aqueduct that served Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced Monday. The ruins, which were ...

For 35 years Israeli archaeologist Ehud Netzer has been searching the ruins of the Herodium just south of Jerusalem - looking for signs that the builder of the ancient palace complex, King Herod ...

Beginning in 20 B.C. Herod set about rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem on a massive and magnificent scale; the Western Wall, the only part of this structure that survives, was the retaining wall.

King Solomon, Zerubbabel and Herod the Great share a unique distinction in history – they each had the privilege of building the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Yet while the Bible tells us much about ...

The Kingdom of Judah would last until 587 BC, when the Babylonians besieged and destroyed its capital Jerusalem, along with Solomon's Temple ... claims the ruins of five fortified cities ...

Caruso went on to explain that, for Herod’s first temple shown in the film ... Scott set to Mary would be the vast set of ancient Jerusalem that Scott constructed for Kingdom of Heaven.