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 ...

Tension focused on the Second Temple there, a building that symbolizes Herod’s complex relationship with his faith. Begun in 20 B.C., Herod’s restoration program refaced the structure in white ...

Nevertheless, Herod’s greatest legacy was to be religious. The size and condition of the second temple, being much smaller and less glorious than the first, had long kept painful memories alive ...

This wall, located in the heart of the Old City, is a remnant of King Herod's renovation of the Second Temple and dates back to the first century B.C. Millions of pilgrims (Jewish and non-Jewish ...

First-century Jerusalem was dominated by the mammoth expansions to the Temple Mount begun by Herod the Great in 20 BCE and not completed ... rabbis in the centuries after the destruction of the Second ...

The temple in Jerusalem ... II of Babylonia. The second was when it had been plundered and wrecked by Judaea’s foreign rulers. The third time, it had been rebuilt by Herod the Great in 20 ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority is pushing back against the country's chief rabbis’ objections to the display at the airport ...

The temple in Jerusalem ... II of Babylonia. The second was when it had been plundered and wrecked by Judaea’s foreign rulers. The third time, it had been rebuilt by Herod the Great in 20 ...