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Herod in the news:
Coins found beneath Jerusalem’s Western Wall were minted 20 years after King Herod’s death, disproving the widely held belief that he completed the wall. “This bit of archaeological information illustrates the fact that the construction of the Temple Mount walls and [the adjacent] Robinson’s Arch was an enormous project that lasted decades and was not completed during Herod’s lifetime,” read a statement released by the Israel Antiquities Authority:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/23/uk-israel-archaeol...
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