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 plot.

The Herodium fortress, with King Herod's tomb site and the theatre he built between 23-15 BCE in the Judaean desert, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank AFP / MENAHEM KAHANA Israeli ...

Although the grandson of the biblical villain Herod the Great, and the longest reigning and of the Herodian dynasty, Herod Agrippa II (fl. c. A.D. 28-c. 95) lacked a biography in any language until ...

Israeli leaders visit missile impact site.

King Herod’s mausoleum, which long eluded archaeologists, sheds light on the ruler’s turbulent reign—and its effect on Jesus’s early life. Desert strongholdSince its construction a few years before ...