Herod the Great, king of Israel from 37 to 4 B.C., transformed Judea architecturally into a Hellenistic-Roman realm that competed with the best in the empire. In this issue, BAR features three Herodian sites—Herodium, a wilderness palace-fortress where Herod was buried; Caesarea, where he built a great harbor; and a magnificent tomb-monument he built for his family in Jerusalem. In 1963, Ehud Netzer was a young Israeli architect working at the Masada excavations under Yigael Yadin. When Virgilio Corbo, the Italian excavator of Herodium, came to visit Masada, Netzer showed him the site and then listened, fascinated, to Corbo’s […]
