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Lords of the Desert – Nabateans

Tamar HaYardeni

After dominating the desert landscape of the Middle East and controlling the immensely profitable Incense Route for almost thirteen hundred years, the Nabateans and their fabled wealth disappeared into the shifting sands. What brought down...

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Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Why did Herod bury his architectural masterpiece and final resting place, and who discovered it? Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Where To? Herodium National Park Herzl has Herzliya, Montefiore has the Jerusalem neighborhood of Yemin Moshe,...

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Book Review | Herod the Great

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World Martin GoodmanJewish Lives series, Yale University Press, 2024227 pages Martin Goodman begins this masterful chronicle of Herod’s tempestuous life by asking whether...

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Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Thamar E. Gindin

Beneath the veil of Iran’s current regime, its people have nurtured their pre-Islamic roots with pride. Until June 12, 2025, the Zoroastrian faith, the Sassanid-Persian Empire, and above all Cyrus, “king of kings,” were all...

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Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

Assaf Avraham

If Jewish sources are anything to go by, Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem was one of the most magnificent edifices ever built. After years of painstaking archaeological research, sifting through rubble illegally removed from the Temple...

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A Dig Full of Holes – Maresha

Sara Jo Ben-Zvi

Has the Maresha excavation unearthed a pile of junk or the key to a Judea much more diverse than we’d supposed? The best thing is, you can find out for yourself Sara Jo Ben-Zvi Maresha...

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The Kaiser’s Cap – Tiferet Israel

Tamar HaYardeni

Fact and fiction intertwine in the tale of Jerusalem’s historic Tiferet Israel Synagogue, which tipped its hat to Austria’s Kaiser Franz Joseph Tamar HaYardeni For the Middle East, 1869 was a critical year: after much...

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Kings

Lords of the Desert – Nabateans

Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Book Review | Herod the Great

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

A Dig Full of Holes – Maresha

The Kaiser’s Cap – Tiferet Israel

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Lords of the Desert – Nabateans

Tale of a Trail | Herodium National Park

Book Review | Herod the Great

Zoroastrians at Heart – Iran’s Zoroastrian Heritage

Paving the Past – Second Temple Floor

A Dig Full of Holes – Maresha

The Kaiser’s Cap – Tiferet Israel

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