First-century Jerusalem was dominated by the mammoth expansions to the Temple Mount begun by Herod the Great in 20 BCE and not completed until shortly before the outbreak of the Great Revolt in 66 CE.

A stone quarry dating from the Second Temple period, recently uncovered in a northern Jerusalem neighborhood, contains massive limestone slabs that were likely used in King Herod’s various ...

In this period, however, we should always remember that there is only one Temple and that's the one ... were built up by Herod the Great on a monumental scale, filling up, I think something ...

Calling this king “great” hardly seems fitting ... most notably the colossal reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Herod saved his people from famine in the mid-20s B.C. Although his ...