Herodium

Burial place

mountain in the West Bank

Location: 31.6658, 35.2414 · Pleiades 687916

Who is recorded here

In art

About the place

The Herodeion, in Latin: Herodium, in Modern Hebrew: הרודיון Herodion, known in Arabic as Jabal al-Fureidis is a fortified desert palace built by Herod the Great, king of Judaea, in the first century BCE.

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