When Judaea became a vassal state of Rome in 63 B.C., the rulers found a willing collaborator in the form of Herod’s father, Antipater, who was made procurator—financial governor—of the new ...

First organized excavation at ruins of Hyrcania sheds light on King Herod's forbidding fortress, where a small 5th-century monastic community waited out the region's regime changes ...