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Did You Hear What Herod the Great Did to Impress A Guest

In 16 BCE Marcus Agrippa, the deputy of the Roman Emperor Augustus, met with Herod the Great. During their journey through Asia Minor the two became friends, and later, when Agrippa arrived for a visit in Judea, Herod decided to turn the king’s reception hall at Herodium, which was above his private theater, into a magnificent guest room.

Gallery: The Ruins of The City of Koumran

Chabad photographer Mordechai Lubecki visited the ruins of the 2,000-year-old city of Koumran, an archaeological site in the West Bank overlooking the west bank of the Dead Sea. The city sits on the historic boundary of Judea, Idumea, and Perea, and in the territory of the Roman province of Judea at the time the site was attacked and destroyed by the Romans.