The Holy Family Trail in Egypt is not only about safeguarding a sacred chapter of the country’s history but also about ...
It described how the “most blessed Mary went forth out of the cave and entering a stable ... After the birth of Jesus, King Herod, feeling as though his power was threatened by Jesus, ordered ...
The area in front of the cave had traditionally been identified as King Herod’s Augusteum, a temple dedicated to the imperial might of Rome built by Herod during his reign that would have ...
The day is celebrated in memory of the children killed by King Herod of Judea in an attempt to eliminate the newborn baby Jesus Christ, who he feared could take over his kingdom (Matthew 2:16-18).
A coin hoard dating back about 2,100 years, during the time of the Jewish Hasmonean kings, has been discovered at a site in ...
The 12.15-meter-long and approximately 1.75-m -wide column is thought to have been quarried in order to decorate the Second ...
He was troubled. That’s what it says. King Herod was troubled, and the people were troubled with him. It doesn’t say why, not exactly. But piece it together. What makes a leader insecure?
J. Scott Herod wants his time as Precinct 3 Smith County Commissioner to be defined by accessibility and attentiveness, ensuring every resident feels heard and valued, even when solutions aren’t ...
There is no poetry in “Herod.” Instead, we are walked stiffly through the career of the man the Romans treated as the king of the client state of Judea, which he governed from 40 B.C.E. until ...
Zora Neale Hurston’s unfinished and yet still stylish novel, The Life of Herod the Great, flips history’s script for the hated king On a sticky Wednesday in 1973, the writer Alice Walker waded ...
Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon was named after Tiberius Claudius Herod Atticus, a wealthy Athenian who sponsored the building of this ancient outdoor ...