But then a financial savior appeared, in the unlikely form of Herod the Great, King of Judea. The year was 14 B.C., and the citizens of Olympia, the city and religious shrine in Greece where the ...

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) spent her financially distressed final decade enthralled by the life of King Herod and working on a novel about him. The books of the 1930s and ’40s that made her ...

have shown that a sacred cave long associated with the worship of nature deity Pan was likely repurposed during the late 1st century CE by Agrippa II, the great-grandson of King Herod, as an ...

Stars of new production of Jesus Christ Superstar: (from left) Javon King ... when Herod says, ‘Walk across my swimming pool’, there’s so much history and in-jokes there. Herod Agrippa ...

Coins of Herodian kings routinely ... Aretas 'with no great enthusiasm for the king himself'. Aretas took an opportunity to prove his usefulness to Rome in the civil strife in Judaea that ensued in ...

The first £1 coins featuring King Charles have entered circulation, marking a historic moment for collectors and the nation’s currency. The newly designed coins will begin appearing in pockets ...

Berenice was the sister of King Herod Agrippa II, the ruler of the Judean region and the ... as well as “catacombs where there appear to be plague victims buried along with coins that date to the ...

Per People magazine, “The Life of Herod the Great,” a posthumously published novel by Hurston recovered after her death, will make its debut on the author’s birthday, January 7, 2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming has recently wrapped in Morocco on under-the-radar biblical thriller Mary, starring Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins as King Herod and emerging Israeli actress Noa Cohen as Mary.