In 1976, Netzer led a team that discovered the site of one of Herod's infamous misdeeds: the murder of his young brother-in-law, Aristobulus, whom Herod ordered to be drowned in a pool at his winter ...

HERODIUM, West Bank — Under a baking sun, pieces of limestone carved with borders of rosettes and geometrical designs lay in three excavated pits Tuesday — a desert site Israeli archaeologists say is ...

JERUSALEM — An Israeli archaeologist has found the tomb of King Herod, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land, Hebrew University said late Monday. The tomb is at a site called ...

The tomb of King Herod, who ruled around the time of the birth of Christ, might have been found by a team of Israeli archaeologists in a hillside in the Judean desert. “It is something very special,” ...

An unusual plan to rebuild the tomb of Herod the Great at the Herodium site, southeast of Jerusalem, has spurred opposition on the part of top archeologists. The plan, which is being promoted by the ...

HERODIUM, West Bank, May 8 -- Israeli archaeologists revealed more details Tuesday about their discovery of what they believe is the tomb of King Herod, the Roman-appointed ruler of Judea known in the ...

HERODIUM, West Bank -- King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East, Israeli archaeologists said Wednesday. The ...