Tension focused on the Second Temple there, a building that symbolizes ... lives in the dungeons of the palace, victims of Herod’s systematic plan to eliminate anyone who showed allegiance ...

Close to Jaffa Street, at the entrance to the Russian Compound, lies an ancient giant pillar, still partially embedded in the stone quarry from which it was carved. A flaw, visible to the naked ...

The First Temple, also known as Solomon's Temple, was destroyed by the Babylonians when they conquered Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Herod's Temple, which was the second Jewish temple constructed in ...