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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

Herodium

Archaeologists from Bar Ilan University, in cooperation with the Staff Officer of Archaeology, excavated the site of Sartaba/Alexandrium in the Jordan Valley in February 2025. (Yodan Flaytman, Staff Officer for Archaeology in Judea and Samaria)
February 12, 2025, 11:09 am
Inscription found in Alexandrium fortress could shed new light on Jewish Revolt
Israeli researchers decipher an ostracon in a grand 1st-century structure in the Jordan Valley that could prove Jewish rebels used the site in their fight against Rome
By Rossella Tercatin
Land surrounding the Herodium archaeological site in the West Bank that was appropriated as state land, on April 1, 2024. (Gush Etzion Regional Council)
April 1, 2024, 10:41 pm
Israel appropriates 42 acres in West Bank’s Etzion Bloc, declaring it state land
Gush Etzion mayor hails move that will allow tourism development at Herodium site; Smotrich orders demolition of three illegal Palestinian buildings over terror shooting
By Jeremy Sharon and Sam Sokol
Herod’s calcite-alabaster bathtub found in Kypros fortress (Prof. Amos Frumkin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
May 17, 2022, 4:48 pm
Alabaster for Herod the Great’s lavish bathtubs traced to quarry in Israel
Daughter-father scientific study rules out Egyptian quarries and shows ancient Holy Land industry was potentially much more developed than previously thought
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Aerial view of the Herodium fortress, on November 25, 2020, with the King Herod's tomb site and the theater built by Herod the Great in 23-15 BCE in the Judaean desert, southeast of Bethlehem (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
December 10, 2020, 10:56 am
New parts of Herod’s palace unveiled, including 300-seat personal theater
Judean king’s arched stairway, foyer exposed at Herodium, along with majestic room in which he hosted Marcus Agrippa, the second-in-command to Caesar Augustus, in 15 BCE
By Jonah Mandel
Herodian National Park (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 7, 2013, 11:25 am
Herod’s mountain hideaway
At Herodian National Park, visitors can enter the labyrinth where this wild king built a summer palace to commemorate a battle he would never forget
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Bonna Devora Haberman
February 8, 2013, 12:54 am
Bonna Devora Haberman
Herodian dreams
Does the Israel Museum’s colossal exhibit reflect a longing for the Jerusalem Temple?
Reconstructing pillars from the theater and mausoleum at Herodium (photo credit: Andrei Vainer)
February 5, 2013, 3:24 am
Herod gets his 15 minutes
A behind-the-scenes look at the Israel Museum’s massive exhibit, opening Tuesday evening, on the hated Roman monarch who ruled Judea on behalf of Rome
By Jessica Steinberg
An aerial view of Herodium, the site of King Herod's Palace and the king's burial tomb, near Bethlehem in the West Bank (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
January 15, 2013, 12:40 am
Israel to reconstruct King Herod’s tomb
Herodium, site of the biblical monarch’s monumental palace and tomb, will be rebuilt outside Bethlehem at a cost of $50,000
By Michal Shmulovich
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