Archaeologists: New evidence for Herod's tomb site
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 15:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
HERODIUM, West Bank (AP) -- Israeli archaeologists excavating what they believe is the tomb of biblical King Herod said Wednesday they have unearthed lavish Roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle East and signs of a regal two-story mausoleum, bolstering their conviction that the Jewish monarch was buried here....