Photograph by AKG/Album To many scholars, however, Herod’s honorific is deserved. The king of the Judaeans for the last part of the first century B.C. was a skilled administrator. He created ...

A Hollywood star is unrecognisable in the first epic trailer for Zero AD, a Massacre of the Innocents movie co-starring Avatar's Sam Worthington and Star Wars' Ben Mendelsohn.

In the early 1980s, before the first intifada turned the West ... and named a new king, Mattathias Antigonus. Herod, probably more shrewd than loyal, declared allegiance to Rome and fled Jerusalem ...

Herod was the Roman-appointed King of Judea when a baby boy named Jesus ... An angel of the Lord first announced the birth to the shepherds. The shepherds quickly made haste to pay homage to ...

They returned home by another road as God had warned them in a dream not to return to Herod. King Herod was partly of Jewish descent. The Romans allowed him to rule for them as Judea’s king ...

“Herod the king in his raging, Charged he hath this day, His men of might in his own sight, All children young to slay.” It’s a dark song for a light season. The seeds of Herod’s ...

The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by Pompey in 65 B.C., the appointment of King Herod the Great by the Romans and finally the crowning of Herod Antipas after he murders his father.

contains massive limestone slabs that were likely used in King Herod’s various construction projects from the first century BCE, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Thursday. At the quarry ...

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 ...