King Herod may have been buried in a crypt with lavish roman-style wall paintings of a kind previously unseen in the Middle east. This was according to Israeli archaeologists. The scientists found such paintings and signs of a regal two-story mausoleum,which added to their conviction that the ancient Jewish monarch was buried there.
Ehud Netzer, head of Jerusalem's Hebrew University excavation team, which uncovered the site of the king's winter palace in 2007, said the finds show work and funding fit for a king. But no human remains or inscriptions have been found to prove conclusively that the tomb was Herod's. The excavation continues. The Herod of Christian tradition, found in the Bible, was a megalomanic, who flew into a frenzy when he met the three wise men on the way to Bethlehem carrying gifts for the baby Jesus and telling of the birth of a new king of Israel. Later he called for all the first born children under the age of two to be killed in hopes of killing Jesus but he did not succeed.
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