In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. tomb with possible ties to King ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

This is the lesson of leadership among Christ’s disciples, to be ever at the task of sharing the Gospel, finding moments of ...

On June 24 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Nativity of Agios Ioannis the Baptist and Forerunner.

For instance, at almost exactly the time of the birth of Jesus (4-6 B.C.), some Jews became fed up with the Jewish King Herod ...

The architecture of a cave in Israel indicates that it was the burial site of a royal family member linked to Herod the Great ...

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, ...

Z or a 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 ...

In the popular imagination, Herod is known for his brief appearance at the beginning of the Gospel of Matthew, when he learns that a new “king of the Jews” will soon be born in Bethlehem.In an ...

Herod (73-4 B.C.), a hardened warrior and lordly fashion plate who, like his father, Antipater, courted Roman patronage, was eventually named king of Judea by Marc Antony in 40 B.C. King Herod the ...

COMMENTARY King Herod — a monstrous ruler who in the Christmas story forced Jesus' family to flee their country — has plenty of modern heirs driving the western hemisphere's migrant crisis today.