Kathryn Gleason

Project Director of the Excavation of Herod's Promontory Palace

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Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University and Project Director of the Excavation of Herod's Promontory Palace at Caesarea with Professor Ehud Netzer of Hebrew University

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Herod the Great expanded the Second Jewish Temple and built the walls of the old city of Jerusalem.  The Romans appointed him King of the Jews in 40 BC.  The Christian Gospel of…

King Herod's Tomb Found

Herod the Great expanded the Second Jewish Temple and built the walls of the old city of Jerusalem.  The Romans appointed him King of the Jews in 40 BC.  The Christian Gospel of…

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