It currently features a 35-acre platform built by King Herod, who was the Roman-appointed king of Judaea and ruled from 37 to ...

Known both as the Finger of Og and as Herod’s Pillar, the 12.15-meter-long and ... during which he also enlarged the Temple Mount. French Orientalist and archaeologist Charles Simon Clermont ...

Temple Mount is one of the holiest sites in ... You can access the Old City from seven entryways: the New Gate, Damascus Gate, Herod's Gate, Lions' Gate, Dung Gate, Zion Gate, and Jaffa Gate.

First-century Jerusalem was dominated by the mammoth expansions to the Temple Mount begun by Herod the Great in 20 BCE and not completed until shortly before the outbreak of the Great Revolt in 66 CE.

It currently features a 35-acre platform built by King Herod, who was the Roman-appointed king of Judaea and ruled from 37 to 4BC. The Temple Mount is now a walled compound with the Dome of the ...