For many people, Israel is near the top of their travel wish lists. This tiny country has a long and complex history, with so many strands woven together: the Israelites, the Jewish story, the ...

Between 22 and 15 BCE, Herod established the Sebastos harbor in Caesarea, one of the most impressive harbors of its time, turning it into a port city. It served as the capital of Roman Judea. In ...

ISRAELI archaeologists have undertaken an ambitious project to restore the palace of King Herod the Great, more than 2,000 years after its construction in the Judaean Desert.

From 37 BCE until his grisly demise in 4 BCE, Herod the Great ruled over Judea. World history has anointed few with the epithet “the Great.” He masterminded and engineered the Jerusalem Temple ...