AFP — Israeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod’s palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial ...

To commemorate that victory, in 23 B.C. Herod decided to build a palace-fortress on the site ... in 15 B.C., it aspired to the latest in Roman interior design. The walls are adorned with painted ...

Israeli authorities are set to unveil previously off-limits structures within King Herod's palace-fortress Herodium, which the tyrannical Roman-era leader interred as his enormous burial plot.

King Herod’s most ambitious project was Herodium, a fortified palace on top of a hill in the Judean desert. Honeycombed with passages and chambers, it also became his mausoleum. Now ...

The entrance to King Herod's 2,000-year-old palace has been discovered in Israel. Archaeologists have uncovered the colossal arched corridor leading to a magnificent entrance hall covered with ...

Nor did Matza know that his adolescent graffiti would become a part of such an important archaeological site, which includes the only surviving remnant of King Herod’s palace. Every ruler worth ...

An aerial view of Herodium complex where archaeologists unearthed a unique palace entry complex Credit: Photo: Tatzpit Aerial Photography/National Plans by King Herod, one of Jewish history’s ...

The excavations include what may be the foundations of the palace of King Herod. It was here, many scholars and archaeologists believe, that the Roman governor Pontius Pilate put Jesus on trial.

Just in time for the holidays! Israeli archaeologists have excavated a grand, arched entryway that led to Herod the Great's Jerusalem palace, NBC News reports. King Herod, who appears in the Bible ...