Herod the Great, the king of Judea who ruled not long before the time of Jesus, seems to have eluded historians once again. In 2007 archaeologists announced they had found the great king's tomb ...

‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Beloved Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston has a new novel, set to hit shelves in 202 ...

Christians remember Herod the Great as a murderous tyrant, and so do Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, when Herod heard that a rival king of the Jews had been born in a stable, he sent out ...

Until today, outside of a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, The Life of Herod The Great. Hurston, the accomplished Black writer, folklorist and ...

Excavations of a colossal fortress built by King Herod the Great have uncovered the palace's dramatic entrance way. The arched entrance and corridor, built around 20 years before the birth of ...

King Solomon, Zerubbabel and Herod the Great share a unique distinction in history – they each had the privilege of building the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Yet while the Bible tells us much about ...

During his 36-year reign as king of ancient Judea, Herod the Great ordered the executions of one wife and three sons, and the Slaughter of the Innocents in a vain attempt to kill the infant Jesus.

aqueducts and amphitheatres and earned him the title 'Herodes Magnus', Herod the Great. The Romans also gave Herod the title 'King of the Jews' because of the Jewish population he ruled.

His Herod," acted for the first time at the Lyric Theatre last night, and set on the stage in a scene and amid surroundings of the most lavish splendor, is a work of such great beauty, with such ...

King Herod’s mausoleum, which long eluded archaeologists, sheds light on the ruler’s turbulent reign—and its effect on Jesus’s early life. Desert strongholdSince its construction a few ...

‘The Life of Herod the Great’ is an unfinished manuscript from the author, who died in 1960 Courtesy of Barbara Hurston Lewis, Faye Hurston, and Lois Gaston; Akindele John/Stephen Brayda ...