Known both as the Finger of Og and as Herod’s Pillar, the 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second Temple as part ...

herod's temple in jerusalem Herod's building programs, both in Caesarea, and throughout the countryside are very extensive. And this is seen, especially in the city of Jerusalem itself.

Beginning in 20 B.C. Herod set about rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem on a massive and magnificent scale; the Western Wall, the only part of this structure that survives, was the retaining wall.

The Jerusalem Temple (Beit HaMikdosh) and the Ka’ba, the House of God (Baitullah) in Mecca are the two most well-known sites for monotheistic pilgrimage in the world. The Islamic Hajj to the Ka ...

This undated photo shows some of the ivories discovered in the assemblage, which contains no fewer than 1,500 fragments. The ivories, considered one of the costliest raw materials in the ancient ...

An extraordinary discovery was unearthed in Jerusalem: an assemblage of ivory plaques from the First Temple period, among the few found anywhere in the world, and the first of their kind to be ...

How the Jerusalem temple fell. Josephus was tight with the emperor. Guy MacLean Rogers trusts his account anyway. by Tony Jones in the October 2022 issue. Share Share on Twitter Share on Facebook ...

Large 2.5-ton stone blocks and tools found in a large quarry in Jerusalem. Credit: Israel Antiquities Authority One of the largest quarries in Jerusalem, dating back to the end of the Second Temple ...

A huge Second Temple period quarry, ... beginning under King Herod the Great’s reign between 37-4 BCE. ... quarrying the building stones for Jerusalem when the Second Temple was standing." ...

“Each such quarried block weighed two-and-a-half tons! Their impressive size likely attests to their intended use in one of Jerusalem’s many royal construction projects in the late Second Temple ...