In the first century B.C., King Herod undertook a massive reshaping of the Temple Mount. He filled up the slopes surrounding the mount’s summit and expanded it to its present size. He enclosed ...

This model looks northeast toward the Temple. To the left is the Antonia Fortress, to the right is Solomon's Portico. In the Center is the Holy of Holies. Robinson's Arch is visible in the nearest ...

The 220-square-meter (2,370-square-foot) structure, dating from the 8th century BCE ... an ancient crackdown on worship outside the Temple Mount. Standing stones are upright stones placed ...

By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their ... to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance. There had been upsets: Jews had been banished ...