A bronze coin dating to the Great Revolt against the ... In the first century B.C., King Herod undertook a massive reshaping of the Temple Mount. He filled up the slopes surrounding the mount ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem for both Jews and Muslims. Historians have associated it with Mount Moriah (where the binding of Isaac took place) and Mount Zion (where the ...

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 ...

As Israeli archaeologists recover artifacts from the religious site, ancient history inflames modern-day political tensions ...