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FOXnews – Israeli Archaeologist May Have Found Tomb of King Herod

An Israeli archaeologist on Tuesday said he has found the tomb of King Herod the Great, the legendary builder of ancient Jerusalem and the Holy Land.

Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer said the tomb was found at Herodium, a flattened hilltop in the Judean Desert where Herod the Great built a palace compound. Netzer has been working at the site since the 1970s.

Herodium, eh? Wonder what gave it away.

Herod became the ruler of the Holy Land under the Romans around 40 B.C. The wall he built around the Old City of Jerusalem during the time of the Jewish Second Temple is the one that can be seen today.

He also undertook massive construction projects in Caesaria, Jericho, the hilltop fortress of Massada and other locations.

[Herod the Great is also blamed in the New Testament's Gospel of Matthew for having ordered the Massacre of the Innocents, the execution of all male Jewish infants in Bethlehem, after having been told that the new King of the Jews had been born there.]

So, it’s like that in the original. One wonders if it was marked as a reminder in the draft, as a possible “Prophet Mohammed” incident LGF is always finding in wire dispatches, then got published. One assumes they use the word “blamed” in order to avoid lawsuits from Herod’s survivors.

Update:

Love this:

BBC – King Herod’s ancient tomb ‘found’

Someone at the Beeb gets the joke.