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 ...

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 ...

A work of historical fiction focused on the story of King Herod and his ties with Sextus Caesar and Marc Antony in the first century bce, the novel required more than 14 years of research and is a ...

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 ...

The film, which stars Oscar Isaac as Jesus, Pierce Brosnan as Pontius Pilate, Mark Hamill as King Herod, Forest Whitaker as Peter and Ben Kingsley as High Priest Caiaphas, is cleverly framed as ...

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 ...