Herod the Great ruled over the Judean Kingdom in the first century BC, and died in 4 AD. He was responsible for rebuilding the Second Temple, as well as building Caesarea and Masada.

Education Week attendees use 3-D virtual reality glasses to tour Herod's temple. (LeAnn Hunt) BYU Education Week participants can take a virtual reality tour of Herod’s temple in the Joseph ...

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

Today worshippers pray at the base of the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the only remains of Herod’s expansion of the Second Temple, which was later destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70. Photograph by ...

For an in-depth day with Herod – at Herodium – the site of the mausoleum, and the Israel Museum, you can reserve a “Herod the Great Tour” and/or personalized guided tours of Herod’s ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a quarry that provided King Herod with the stones he used to renovate the biblical Second Temple compound, offering rare insight into construction of the ...

Discovery may cause biblical rewrite of King Herod. November 23, 2011 / 2:58 PM EST / AP Visitors are reflected as they walk in the Davidson Center near the Western Wall, the ...

Jul. 07 – A large stone quarry from the end of the Second Temple period (2,030 years ago) was exposed in Jerusalem during excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority prior to the ...

Caruso went on to explain that, for Herod’s first temple shown in the film, the production “adapted a large set built by Sir Ridley Scott to fit our needs, ...