New research suggests that a burial site once venerated by Christian pilgrims likely belonged to a member of Herod’s dynasty rather than a New Testament figure ...

AI Reveals Dead Sea Scrolls May Be Older Than Previously Thought Learn more about Enoch, the machine learning model predicting the ages of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient texts.

Since their discovery, the historically and biblically hugely important Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of Jewish and Christian origins. However, while the general date of the ...

Father of Herod I, King of Judea, Antipater is known as the founder of the Herodian Dynasty. As an ally of Julius Caesar, Antipater became a powerful politician until he was assassinated by a ...

Why Herod captured Hurston’s rich and voluminous imagination the way he did is a mystery to me, although I find her fascination compelling. She read up on Herod and concluded he had been unjustly ...

More than 60 years after her death, Hurston’s unfinished novel “The Life of Herod the Great” showcases her passion for her subject.

The Jordan Valley area where the coins were discovered was ruled by the Hasmoneans following a successful revolt against the Seleucid dynasty.

A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in the Jordan Valley.

Herod the Great Mosaic. YouTube snapshot Herod the Great, who was the King of Judea during the Roman Empire, is said to have preserved the body of his deceased wife in honey for seven years, despite ...

The Roman Emperor Augustus had given Herod the title “King of the Judaeans,” even though he wasn’t fully Jewish. The Romans liked to give the appearance of civilized rule by getting local ...

The date of the death of Herod the Great is controversial and has enormous significance for the birth of Jesus. What does the evidence show?