King Herod is one of the greatest builders of the world, constructing, during his reign, a huge number of important cities and sites across the Middle East. Whilst many of his projects are highly visible, a mystery has surrounded his place of burial. For 35 years, Ehud Netzer, one of Israel’s leading archaelogists tried to find the tomb, and in 2007, he discovered what is thought to be it

When you build a house, you dont really think about where the materials are coming from. Yet Israeli archaelogists have discovered that King Herod had a large network of quarries in the Jerusalem area 2,000 years ago when he was building the Jewish Temple in the city.
A 1,000 sq ft quarry has been discovered in this network, where rocks which measure three meters long, two meters across, and two meters high would have been extracted – this makes them big enough for the Western Wall to be built from them, …