King Herod
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Herodium - A Denovo Foundation
Herodium is the only sight, apparently, that herod named after himself. And he named all his other sights after some one else. So i think we should actually defer that for a minute. But i will say ocu that this is one of the things that annoys puzzled me. It doesn't really explain why he established such an important place on this particular spot, right? That comes back to, i think, the location with beth Bethlehem, which is something that i had thought about for a very long time.
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