Herod’s Lady’s Earring?

“Something shiny caught my eye,” Dan Rodriguez recalls, reliving his moment of discovery. In June 1989, the 34-year-old Rodriguez—a pastor from Santurce, Puerto Rico—was walking down the steep path from the top of Herodium. He had just accompanied a group of Spanish-speaking students on an archaeological study-tour to this palace-fortress of Herod the Great, who ruled Judea from 37 to 4 B.C.a Herodium, still dramatically intact today, was built by Herod in the Judean desert, nine miles south of Jerusalem, as a refuge from his political enemies and as the place where he wished to be buried. From a […]